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    "id": 1340587,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. From the onset, allow me to congratulate Hon. Muriu of Gatanga for bringing this very important issue on the Floor of the House. For the first time, we have seen children in primary schools being sent home for fees. It has never happened. While walking in the streets, you will find a child and ask them why they are not in school, and they will tell you they have been sent home for small amounts of money from their primary schools. You can see that we have a big problem. Initially, the junior secondary school (JSS) was structured to go to secondary schools. If it went to secondary schools, they would have been given proper capitation as it is in the normal secondary schools. But today, 11-year-old children are in the streets and not going to school because they cannot afford Ksh3,000 or Ksh4,000 that is being asked to provide food and other necessities in the school. This means that we are joking with a very serious issue and precipitating a crisis in our country. We are talking of 11- or 12-year olds who are not able to access education and this is driving children, especially girls, to early marriages, pregnancies and defilement because they do not have food or sanitary towels. If we cannot provide food and sanitary towels for our kids, then we are failing as a nation."
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