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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Before I start, I want to congratulate you. I thank the Almighty God because as girls who were mentored by Mwai Kibaki we still keep our values. This is a Motion that is so dear to my heart. I want to thank Stanbic Bank for starting the programme in my constituency. I am able to feed Gatina Primary School. We are still negotiating for Muslim Primary School and Kawangware Primary School as I prepare to launch the kitchen programme to feed at least 15,000 children in school every day at lunch time. I also want to thank Hon. Kiarie, Hon. Mohamed Ali, Hon. Milemba and Hon. Aseka. This team has made us proud. They are able to feed children within their constituencies. There is a wonderful girl called Wawira who right now is feeding 80,000 children across different counties. I also want to thank her and her Food for Education initiative. She has a vision which I hope this House will follow to ensure that we have food for our children. The most interesting thing is that we tend to ignore the fact that when the 13 ASAL counties face hunger, Nairobi is hit so badly. And I am not saying this in bad faith. You will find children running all over shopping centres looking for food after school, which is very dangerous. This programme serves to retain children in school. It also ensures that we safeguard our children so that they are not used to peddle drugs. At Lavington Arcade, a child is given a parcel to send to someone and they do not inspect it because they want their Kshs100 to take home. Many grown-ups in Nairobi use children within shopping malls to peddle drugs. We need to deal with that. I want to thank Mama Elsie Muhanda, our leader and mother who has held most of us from Kakamega together, for thinking as a mother. This is what parents need for their children. To even have good grades, you need to be fed. We know very well that when a child is hungry, he will be so helpless in class and will never concentrate. We should pick this programme. We should look at the NG-CDF Act and entrench it in the Constitution. The Kshs1.6 billion the Ministry of Education is using should come through the constituencies to feed children. If used well, that money is enough to feed nearly all children in the 290 constituencies. Parents will only need to subsidise maybe with Kshs5 or Kshs6. When you look at the world today, the people suffering are women and children. When you look at urban areas like Nakuru, Nairobi Kisumu and Mombasa, if we are not careful we are going to lose a lot of our children. They are about to close school in the next one month. I am imagining what is going to explode in Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu and other urban areas where children will be after closing schools for two months. They will wonder what to do. I know the regulations on supplying food are strict, but I want the Principal Secretary for Special Programmes, Mr. Nelson Marwa, to have mercy on urban areas and distribute food The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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