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    "id": 1240854,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "When I took my candidature to the people of Molo to be their Member of Parliament in 2017, I made a commitment. In fact, my re-election bid in 2022 was based on my performance because the people of Molo have never re-elected anyone for the last 30 years until yours truly became the first person to be re-elected to the position of Member of Parliament for Molo Constituency. Our polling stations are either our primary schools or secondary schools. I told my people not to vote for me again if they went to where they voted for me, whether it is that primary or secondary school, and found it the same way it was when they voted for me in 2017. They voted for me again because all the polling stations where people went to vote from in the last election in my constituency had a difference. We had either renovated the school or put up the first permanent building in that school. If it was a day secondary school, I told them that I would make sure that we would have 100 per cent equipped and complete science laboratories in all the day secondary schools in Molo Constituency by the end of my five-years tenure. I am saying again here that I was re-elected on that merit. When issues of NG-CDF come to this House and we are told that some managers have mismanaged the funds sent to their constituencies, I am saddened. Some are being applauded on basis of the equalisation done in our education system. Availability of infrastructure in our schools, and the existence of a Fund from which people who cannot afford to pay school fees benefit through bursaries and scholarships to ensure that their children go to school, becomes an equaliser in our society. Nobody wants to be poor. Nobody wants to be born poor. Certainly, nobody wants to die poor. It is not a choice of anyone in this country to be born poor. If asked, we would all be born in privileged families where we could have everything we would want. That is not the reality. The only way we could bridge that gap between those born in privileged families and those born in absolute poverty, underprivileged families or families of need, is making sure that the public education system works. 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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