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    "speaker_name": "Bomet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Yegon",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. As my colleagues said earlier on, this is a very important issue which we, as Members of Parliament, want to support and make sure that all the students in our schools have a dress code which can easily be distinct or differentiated from the other schools. This has been long overdue. School uniforms are expensive because most of the schools, especially those in my area, give out school uniforms in schools. If the Government chips in and does capitation on the school uniform, it will go a long way in helping most vulnerable parents or those who are not in a position to buy school uniforms. Parents are directed to go to certain shops to buy most of these school uniforms where maybe there might be some collusion with some teachers who seek kickbacks by sending parents to particular shops. If parents are given an opportunity to go and buy school uniforms in whichever shop they feel like, so long as it is of the same material and colour as required by the school, it will go a long way in helping our parents from being exploited. Again, standardisation is very important in the sense that it helps in the identification of our children. When they are going home, they can easily be identified and separated. I take a case whereby police officers are sent to conduct a raid in a certain village or any given area and students can easily be identified from other people instead of being taken into the wrong hands. School uniforms help in identifying our children. Last but not least, I will go out of this Motion and bring something which is going on now. The leader of opposition, Hon. Raila Odinga, is holding a rally here in the city and the whole House is like empty. We have to put in place some measures to cap political rallies on a particular date or timelines. We do not need to come from our elections and then we start campaigning. This honourable House needs a mechanism whereby we say that we do not have to do politics until a particular time when go back to campaigns. We cannot subject our people… Look at the businessmen in this great city, they are subjected to losses because they are afraid of eventualities of chaos. So, we need to look into this."
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