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    "id": 1229894,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to welcome students from Wanjohi Mixed Secondary School, their teachers and parents who have visited the National Assembly and Senate to see the proceedings. I congratulate Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba for bringing up this timely, Motion. As I walked into the Chamber, I tried to identify my students but could not. It is only after seeing two Mukorinos that I noticed that mine are seated on the front benches. I welcome them. Having said that, this is a good Motion. Going forward in the current times, we need to standardise many things. Sometimes, school uniforms with this current economic hardship are expensive than the school fees, which beats logic. School uniform can cost Ksh30,000, Ksh40,000 or even Ksh50,000 especially, in boarding schools while the school fees maybe around Ksh20,000. We, therefore, need a policy that can standardise this. However, we must not forget where we are coming from. As Hon. Haika has indicated, it is good for every school to be allowed the freedom of choosing its own uniform and choice of colour so that they be different in their kind. Even as we do infrastructure currently, you will find that school ‘A’ likes colour green while that of their iron sheets is green, red, blue or whichever colour. Identity, therefore, is important because students can be identified by different colours. We should, therefore, not lose it by saying that all children should wear the same uniform. Basically, this is a very good example where their own Member of Parliament cannot identify them in the midst of students from Meru County. Having said that, we must remember that we are living in hardship and economic crisis. The idea of telling students to all go to point ‘A’ and buy shoes and sweaters there when the same items are available in mitumba is not right. If a shoe is black, a parent can go to Gikomba or the nearest market and buy a black shoe as long as it has laces as it is required, and the child continues learning. In my view, the policy is good but we need to make it simple, easy and achievable. 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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