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    "id": 1214103,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Yatta, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Ngui",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me the chance. Thank you, the Sponsor of the Motion, Hon. Wamuchomba, if I am right. This is a good Motion, although we need to be specific on what we are standardising. For me, we need to standardise the cost of uniforms. If you look at uniform currently, there are schools that are charging more than the actual cost of uniform. This is adding burden and barring many students from accessing education. In addition, we should not standardise colour. If you standardise colour, it will mean more burden to the parents when we will be phasing out the old uniforms. So, let us focus on the price. Currently, many students are at home because the actual cost of uniforms has denied them a chance to go to school. Another important element that I want to put across is that, if the Government can pay for free education in terms of providing for other aspects of education and supporting the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) with free uniform, why can it not do the same for poor students? Perhaps, it will be important if we have a policy that will task the Government to provide free uniforms for students across the country. Another important element that it will be nice to focus on standardisation in the near future is looking at the design of uniforms. I remember back in my school days. I could see a big variance between what students from poor backgrounds wore with what students from rich backgrounds or the urbanites wore. That set some form of discrimination on appearance. The essence of having a standardised uniform is to bring homogeneity in education. If this cannot be realised, we can go the United States of America way, where students, particularly in public schools, do not necessarily wear uniforms. So, that is something that we need to put straight in the Motion and, with a few revisions, we can have it as a Bill. Lastly, to the Mover of the Motion, I will be happy to make my input in the drafting of the Bill to ensure that it resonates with the realities and priorities of different areas that we represent across the country. I will be happy to get that moment to contribute further. Thank you."
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