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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Allow me to support the statement by the Senator for Machakos County, Sen. Kavindu Muthama, regarding pending and stalled projects in Machakos County. You will realise that some of the pending bills issues that have been there are brought by stalled projects. Money has already been spent and part of the certificates have been paid, but the projects are not complete. It becomes a waste and not valuable to the people. It is not only happening in Machakos County, but cuts-across the 47 counties. These are some of the issues we come across in our different committees. They are brought about by the political class issues. A new government comes in place and decides not to complete the projects initiated by the previous governor. The notion is that that project is from the previous governor. That affects the local people. They are not able to benefit from these projects because of the political issues that run across the different counties. It will be prudent if this committee can interrogate all the 47 counties and find out which projects are pending and why they are pending. The governors should appear before the committee and show cause why they are not prioritizing the projects that have been there all this particular time. Touching on education matters regarding Sen. Mwaruma's statements, we have the issues of funding from primary education as he puts it. I thought primary education is currently free. We should be focusing on making education free from Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) to the higher learning education level of the university. Education should be made totally free in this country. I would want to entertain the discussion that all monies pertaining to bursaries issued from the county level, the national Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and the Ministry of Education be bundled to ensure they offer free education from ECDE to the highest level of education to all our students in this country. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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