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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "One of the things we should be thinking about as Members of Parliament is how we ensure, even as we support bursaries and all this, that every child can find a uniform. Most of them do not go to public schools because you find a parent telling you their child cannot afford school uniforms, the books being asked for and the Ksh6,000 or Ksh5,000 they are being requested to pay. For me, indeed we need to have a way of having free education in this country, but let us do it in the right way. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you remember to date we are still fighting the Ministry of Education with capitation. The biggest challenge we face is not about how the bursary is being given or about anything. The challenge we face is, we have people who have lived in Jogoo House for a while now and they will tell you how they are doing things, yet part of them are the biggest problem we are facing. If you have been in a system for 30 years, why is it that we cannot make it right for our children in this country? We have to be very clear that, indeed, every child has a right in this country, even the one who does not have a parent. We have many bursaries. In fact, even in the ABET schools that we are talking about, you will find them telling children to expect sponsors. However, you do not care how the child is going to move to high school. That is the time the child is left out. If we are doing this JSS, we must change the system of this country on how we look at things. The other day, I saw the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet). When we find ourselves fighting that Kuppet must be somewhere so that they continue having union numbers and when the children close school, they do not even have food… Those are the things this House should not allow. We are not here to put our children and teachers in unions. We are here to see a country that standardises and makes it clear that education is the only merit a child can have to sit at a table with any other child. While I support my leader, Hon. Esther Passaris and wish her that this indeed is needed, we have to do it in the right way. Before we do anything on this, let every child have a NEMIS number. Now they are moving it from NEMIS to Kenya Education Management Information System (KEMIS). Let every child have a KEMIS number in January. Let this matter of birth certificates be stopped completely, the same way we are trying to give Form Fours identity cards in school. Let the Ministry concerned with the identification of birth certificates, go and sit in every school to ensure every child has a birth certificate. You will find that I have a school with 3,600 children in today’s capitation, and only 200 have NEMIS numbers. Where does that capitation after we have given the Ministry all this money go? This is the case and yet you are saying you have 3,000 or 5,000 children in this 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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