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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have a responsibility to always bring facts to this House. I also have a responsibility to educate lawyers who do not know numbers. Therefore, if you give me until the end of the week, I will furnish this House with that data. I will be talking about so much data here that Sen. Cherarkey might collapse hearing it because he does not understand these numbers. I want to tell Sen. Cherarkey that when he was speaking, I was listening. We were given one mouth and two ears so that we listen more. In relation to these numbers, let him digest the numbers. If they are contrary, I will wish him the courage to be in touch with what is happening. For instance, I was going to the issue of secondary school education. When President Uhuru left the presidency, the capitation for secondary school education was such that the cost of tuition was Kshs22, 000. By the time the President was leaving, everybody was getting their money. Today, in our economy, we have four million students who are secondary school students. He knows very well that the President has only released Kshs65 billion for capitation. If you are to divide that by four million students, then it means that the students today are only getting Kshs16 billion. Therefore, that means, every single parent has to pay Kshs6,000 more on that capitation gap that we have. It is a problem and our children are suffering. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, regarding the Junior Secondary Schools that have been brought today, 95 percent of the schools that we have in our country do not have money for infrastructural improvement that can be able to meet the demands of these schools. Therefore, while parents are struggling to pay for capitation gaps in this country, the same parents are forced to fundraise to be able to buy desks, build classrooms and buy books for their children."
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