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    "id": 1340605,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1340605/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": " Thank you. I am standing pursuant to Article 53(1)(b) of the Constitution to ask the Temporary Speaker whether the proposed resolutions number one and two of this Motion, which I agree to be very important, are constitutional. I am seeking your ruling before we debate the matter further. I may not have a problem with the proposed resolution number three, but the resolutions number one and two propose the application of the National Government Constituency Development Funding (NG- CDF) to cater for matters of basic education. To be clear, the provisions of Article 53(1)(b) to which I have adverted reads: “Every child has the right to free and compulsory basic education.” Should we be asking how we will ensure that education is free and compulsory or be thinking of how we can resolve to apply monies of CDF to sustain it? Hon. Temporary Speaker, I say this while aware that even as we speak, particularly for secondary schools, too many students are currently at home because the capitation which should be going to every student is about Ksh22,000, but only half of that money has gone. We are in a state where even the very basic capitation provisions cannot be catered for. However, that is not the issue now. The issue is: Could the Chair rule on the constitutionality of resolutions number one and two, it being the case that those provisions of the Constitution have cited education at this level and everything relating to education in terms of their resourcing should be free and compulsory. Thank you."
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