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    "id": 1229930,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Chepalungu, CCM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Victor Koech",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion by Hon. Wamuchomba on the standardisation of school uniforms. We are all aware about the programme that the former Government was striving to run, of having 100 per cent transition to junior secondary schools and 100 per cent transition to Form One. This can only be realised if we all agree here today that standardisation of school uniforms is necessary because uniform is becoming a barrier to the realisation of the same. There is a student who scored 404 marks, having been sponsored by a donor, but he is yet to report to a national school simply because his parents cannot raise the required amount of money for school uniform. This will only come to an end if we standardise school uniforms as said by the Mover of the Motion, Hon. Wamuchomba. There is nothing wrong with all schools wearing the same uniform. Look at the police service in the entire country and KMTC students. They wear the same uniform and no one is complaining about them. Men look handsome and the ladies look beautiful. The KMTC students’ uniform is the same across all campuses. There is absolutely nothing wrong if we tell all junior secondary school students to wear the same uniform. If anything, it will bring uniformity and equality. Look at a scenario of a high school that is known to perform well. Such a school earns respect from society while a high school that is known to perform dismally will attract an opposite view. To bring this to an end, we need to standardise and have the same school uniform colour across the country so that our learners can be the same."
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