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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turbo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Janet Sitienei",
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    "content": "believing in me once more. I pledge to work very hard to ensure that service delivery is up to date. I also want to thank the President of the Republic of Kenya because he is a voter in my constituency and he voted for me; including Her Excellency Rachel Ruto. I want to thank them so much. It is humbling to be voted in by the President. I want to add my voice to the Motion and thank Hon. Elsie Muhanda for bringing it. It is on the development of a school feeding policy. It is, indeed, a very important Motion that brings in the issue of school feeding programme in our schools. It is very important because this is the only way to mitigate on hunger and malnutrition in the basic and secondary schools. Given that 4.1 million people are hungry in this nation, by introducing the school feeding programme, it is going to go a long way in ensuring that there is increase in enrolment, there will be improved results in our schools and struggling for 100 per cent transition will be a thing of the past. It has been so difficult to ensure that schools have 100 per cent transition when families have no food to give to their children. When some families go hungry in a day, some have no meal or three meals in a day. So, this will go a long way in ensuring that there is 100 per cent transition. It is also going to help improve the nutrition of our children. When we improve on the nutrition of our children, we are also improving on their IQ and hence, the results will even be better. Those of us who were in school in the 1970s never had the school feeding programme. But for those who joined in the 1980s, I still remember there was something called “SUPRO”. I am sure many of you do not know that. It was a very nice meal that was given to the primary school children and it enhanced the nutritional value of the children. In the 1990s, came the"
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