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    "id": 1451684,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Bashing Members of Parliament every day is not right. We need to give very clear civic education to make sure our people on the ground understand how these things are done. How do we account back? Why is there need to complete a school on time? I am very strict. Completion takes a maximum of seven months. I always tell someone that the money is there. Do not tell me that we are starting a project that does not have resources. Hon. Temporary Speaker, all the 290 Members, it is time we redeemed ourselves in doing what is right. I was a bit sad in the morning. We have come back to heal. I want to pray for both sides. Can we heal? Can we heal so that the country heals? Today, can you imagine that even civil servants have a holiday on Tuesdays? They do not go to work and yet we are here as leaders, joking with Kenya. We are supposed to help the President bring back the Kenya we are crying for. When I see the way we throw words at each other, I wonder who we are in this House. Are we also in the same problem? That is where we must start, in our hearts. Even our Clerk is feeling hurt. He said he was disappointed, which is true. Many of us were disappointed. We were supposed to come and find ways to resurrect Kenya. Today, Bunyala Road and all these other places, even the projects we are talking about, are burning. Children are about to close school. We cannot continue with all the madness we are seeing when children are about to close school. We have to come together to reason and see how we can move forward. Those who normally go to court over the NG-CDF, I beg them to come and see first. I even request the judges to walk in some of those constituencies and ask the public. Let us not make the mistake we made with our Finance Bill. Ask the public. They will tell you if they feel this is a wrong Fund. They will tell you if they feel it is a right Fund. The judges should also come out of their judicial space. For things that are in public and the public feels that they own them, please, go to the public before you make a judgement that can bring many issues. I beg them. I respect them. I know they will do what is respectful to Kenyans because that is the only working Fund. Very soon, I will be giving all vulnerable Form IVs a second funding for them to clear their Form IV studies without being sent back home. Which other fund can do that? When you walk to a chief’s office today, it has dignity. Which other fund can do that? Tell me! Look at the classrooms that were done by the Ministry of Education under the late Magoha. We are bringing some of them down because they were so badly built. Classrooms were built on the second floor where there are no stairs nor rumps. We are now re-organising. In fact, the Auditor-General should ask for the report of the schools done by the Ministry of Education. For example, let her just have a look at Lavington Girls’ Secondary School. I will show her a classroom that was done on the second floor, with no stairs. It has been there and nobody has ever occupied it. We are currently doing the stairs. That is not the only classroom. Many of them were done very The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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