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    "id": 1265532,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Duncan Mathenge",
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    "content": "have failed to curtail its production and distribution. We are poisoning our young people as we watch. Traders have taken our country hostage because they want to make money at any cost. We need to formulate a coherent, clear and well-understood policy by not only students, but also parents. We should give a clear roadmap for the desires of our young people. The sending home of children from school has to stop, as a matter of policy, in this country. The cost of uniforms varies from school to school. Why should there be a difference between the cost of uniforms in secondary schools? The cost of the feeding programme for lunch varies from school to school, even in schools that are in the same town. If you go to Nyeri Town Constituency, both DEB Muslim Primary School and the Temple Road Primary School are literally neighbours, but they have different costs for lunch. You find that the biggest burden that parents in our schools have today is the cost of school feeding programme. Therefore, this policy must also address the issues of the cost of feeding in our schools, uniforms, and construction of multipurpose halls. We shall become a darling for all schools today. There is also the issue of funding of school buses. Therefore, we need a clear Government policy on the cost of some of these burdens that are being borne by our parents thus largely jeopardising the education and the future of our children. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 requires us to ensure that our education is inclusive, equitable and of the same quality. Therefore, the question is whether the quality of education offered at Kagumo High School in Nyeri Town Constituency is the same as that at Kihuyo Secondary School in my village? It is clear in our minds that the answer is no. How then can we be signatories to the SDGs and then sit and allow those kinds of disparities to continue? When we come to the management of teachers, Nyeri Town Constituency is largely a municipality. It was a municipality even before the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 was promulgated. I have teachers who are paid an enhanced house allowance as required for teachers who are working in municipalities. Other teachers in the neighbouring schools are not paid the enhanced house allowance. When you approach the management of teachers and Teachers Service Commission (TSC), they pretend not to be aware of the existence of such disparities. It is time that some of the institutions managing important affairs of this country, like TSC, are invited to appear before the relevant committees of this House to answer questions from the legislators. The question of Cabinet Secretaries coming here to answer questions for constitutional commissions and other bodies that are playing crucial roles in terms of the management of the affairs of our country should come to an end. For how long can we keep on shielding those people? The problems keep on piling."
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