{"id":1345489,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1345489/?format=json","text_counter":153,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cheruiyot","speaker_title":"The Senate Majority Leader","speaker":{"id":13165,"legal_name":"Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot","slug":"aaron-cheruiyot"},"content":" Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is an interesting morning. Firstly, the Statement by Sen. Mundigi deserves our attention and that of the Committee on Education because this is a policy decision the Government has played ping-pong on a number of occasions. Previously in 2015, there was a directive that in the interest of saving taxpayers’ money, because school teachers were buying books at exaggerated amounts, a centralized procurement system be put in place. They would procure from the national Government and send them to schools. That policy appeared to be working initially. However, a few years down the line and Kenya being what it is, a strange people with peculiar habits, found out that schools even without classrooms were supplied truckloads of books and yet, they did not have"}