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    "id": 1202930,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana",
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "not have the resources to pay for each and every individual to send them back to school where they belong. We risk creation of a generation of people who are going to stay at home and then become despondent. They will go back to doing all the things we told them not to do. They will start engaging in activities that we as parents do not wish them to engage in. I pray that on the Floor of this House as I plead with the Government, that temporary measures should be made between the National Treasury and the Ministry of Education, so that funds are transferred to these schools. Mr. Ukur Yattani the Cabinet Secretary for Treasury told us that he has not released those funds because he is waiting for an interpretation through the Attorney General of the opinion of the Supreme Court. As that process is taking place, intervening measures can be made so that our children will not miss school. I know that it is possible because this is a ‘hustlers Government’ and they know what our people are going through. Something needs to be done as an interim measure. It is possible for Government to work together so that children go back to school even as the issues of CDF are being resolved. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to speak on the issue of our democracy. The President spoke about the fact that our democracy was maturing. He said that there was so much freedom even the Deputy President who is in Government becomes a candidate of the opposition and then goes to win and a sitting President becomes a leader of the other side. He said in a positive way that this was what we were talking about democracy in Kenya. I want to mention something connected with democracy in this country. We must legislate to increase the space for participation rather than reduce the space for participation. In this occasion, there was a judgement that has gone into the minds of everybody in this country about the qualifications that are requisite for somebody to run for governor. In my opinion, we should continue to legislate in such a way that we increase the space and do not reduce it. People who have become governors were once in this House. Senators who were in this House have become governors. In this House you do not need to have a degree. We are not in any way belittling education but let us increase the space. On that same note, let us increase the space for political parties to participate. It is wrong for big political parties to continue to reap from the National Treasury through the office of the Registrar of Political Parties. We are paying a lot of money and yet the formula excludes all the small political parties. We must legislate to increase the space. If political parties present presidential candidates they must be facilitated, whether they win or not. If we are not going to get people being given facilitation because they are small, then let all of us not have facilitation. Let the playing field be levelled. It is wrong for certain political parties to have billions while others which are coming up having nothing. When do we grow political parties and space? Let us legislate to increase the space rather than to decrease space for democracy to flourish in this country. I beg to support."
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