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    "id": 1340573,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wakili Muriu",
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    "content": "implemented, that capitation was not revised. That is why it remains at Ksh1,420 per child instead of Ksh7,760 per child. Section 48A of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF) Act, 2015 provides that the amount capitated for bursaries is only 35 per cent, which is not adequate to cater for secondary schools, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETs) institutions, universities, and colleges. The NG-CDF Board has only been approving bursaries for secondary and tertiary education institutions under Article 27 of the Constitution and leaving out primary school pupils. That is discrimination. You cannot provide for some students and fail to provide for others. The second issue is the moral aspect. Bursaries provided for secondary schools and universities support their feeding programmes because education is already supported by the capitation. Here is the moral issue. Students in secondary schools, universities and tertiary institutions are well-fed whereas students in primary schools are left out. As a mother, how can you feed an adult and leave out a child who has just stopped breastfeeding? Therefore, I move this Motion to urge the NG-CDF Board to comply with Section 48A of the NG-CDF Act to provide bursaries to support feeding programmes in our primary schools. I request Hon. Aden Daudi, Member of Parliament for Wajir West, to second the Motion."
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