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    "id": 1340617,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johana Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Just as Mheshimiwa Kaluma wanted to seek your guidance, I want your ruling to consider something. It is a fact that though Article 53 of the Constitution talks about access to free primary or basic education, it does not mean that children or learners in those schools are not taught by paid teachers. The Government, not parents, pays teachers who teach those pupils. The Government builds the schools where those learners study. This does not mean that education is free. It means parents will not incur any infrastructure or teaching costs and costs of any other programme that the Government could introduce. One of those programmes is the school feeding programme that Mheshimiwa Muriu is trying to introduce. It does not mean education is free. It means the Government caters for that cost. This amendment or proposal by Mheshimiwa Wakili Muriu does not contravene the Constitution because it is asking the Government to cater for the school feeding programme through either the NG-CDF or the Ministry of Education. It is not taking the burden of incurring the cost to the parents. It is not contravening the Constitution. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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