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    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the general debate on the issue of the reports of the Auditor-General on the financial statements for the NG-CDF as per our Standing Orders. I have said severally on the Floor of this House that I am a product of the NG-CDF. When I completed my primary school education at Mwangi Muchiri Primary School in Mukinyai and got admitted to a national school, my grandfather who brought me up could not afford to pay school fees for me to join that school. As a result, I found myself at Kieni Secondary School – a mixed day secondary school – in Kiringero, Subukia Constituency. Having been admitted to a district mixed day secondary school, we still could not afford school fees for that secondary school. My villagers had to fundraise. I remember one lady – we call her “Cucu Virginia” – who contributed everything she had because she did not have her own child to take to school. Thereafter, the then Member of Parliament for Molo, Hon. Mukiri Macharia, through his member of staff, Mr. Karanja Wangece from Witima, approached my grandfather and told him that he could apply for bursary funds to take me through secondary education. That is how I went through secondary school from 2002 to 2005. I was one of the first people in my secondary school to qualify to be admitted to a public university. I missed mean grade “A” in the KCSE exams with one point despite going through a mixed district day secondary school. For me, it is a personal matter every time the NG-CDF is discussed here. I empathise with the millions of students in this country who would like to be in a reputable boarding school, but cannot afford to get there. I mean schools like Precious Blood Riruta, Alliance High School, Alliance Girls High School or, closer home, the Molo Academy Boys Secondary School and Mary Mount Secondary School, or all those big named schools. Even affording transport to those schools is a nightmare. I really identify with those students."
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