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    "id": 139550,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/139550/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. James Maina Kamau",
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        "legal_name": "James Maina Kamau",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, again, as we were going through these records, we realized that they are going to allocate to every constituency at least Kshs2.2 million per bus. When you go to General Motors and look at what you can buy with Kshs2.2 million, really I do not understand whether you are just going to buy a shell, because it can only buy a very small vehicle that cannot accommodate 24 or 34 of the people you are talking about. So, that issue should be looked into. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the same time, they have also said that they are going to have at least Kshs1 million to run those buses. Really, if you do a bit of arithmetic and take about two technicians and a driver, the kind of money that you are talking about is very little. It cannot do much, unless you want to tell us that you are maybe, joining another Ministry like the Ministry of Education; Kshs1 million cannot get you anywhere. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue is introducing and making ICT compulsory in primary schools. I do not think that it would be a very difficult thing to do. With the kind of budget given to the Ministry, they can introduce compulsory ICT education and computers in schools. It is not really a big deal; it can be done. This is because everywhere you go to in the world, without computer knowledge, you are a nobody. Even if you have got a Masters Degree or Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD), without ICT knowledge, then you are a nobody. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of airwaves, a colleague has just mentioned that there is a group of people dominating this field. Also, there is something that has not been mentioned here by the Ministry; that is the issue of having foreign broadcasters in this country. Look at a broadcasting house like the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). They have enjoyed space in this country, but when you try to do a similar thing in"
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