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    "id": 1249117,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1249117/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nicholas Ng’ikor",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to thank the Cabinet Secretary and ask him a question on the issue of half-term, which has become mandatory in our education calendar. My question is: What advantage is the half-term adding to our learners in this country? You find a child from Turkana schooling in Mombasa County is given three days to go for half-term all the way from Mombasa to Turkana East. From Turkana to Mombasa, you can travel for three days, one way and going back another three days. That is a total of six days. How fast will this child travel from Mombasa to Turkana for this half-term? Half-term has become very expensive to the parents. Some children leave school and exhaust the half-term days on the road; thus, they have to go back to school without reaching home. It is even becoming dangerous for our learners because some of them meet strangers on their way home in the name of travelling for half-term. Can the Cabinet Secretary clarify what the half-term is adding to education of our learners in this country, both in primary and secondary schools? Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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