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    "id": 1495112,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "I truly want to thank God that on some occasions I could come back from home with Kshs25 collected after my mother who had sold Chang’aa . My teachers would gracefully accept the Kshs25 and allow me a few more days in school. I was lucky at Kakamega High School, I met a gentleman called Mr. Peter Whales. Peter Whales was teaching me Chemistry at A Level. Purely because of the luck God gave me, because I was doing very well in his class, he got tired of me being sent away and then took over and educated me in the year of Form Six. Thanks to him, I made it in Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology and became a doctor. We are killing very many brilliant young people because of asking them to pay. I want to appeal to our President to read tonight the story of the late former President Mwai Kibaki. The biggest thing that the late former President Mwai Kibaki gave our children was when he made education free. By dint of making education free, he brought one million children into school, who had just been lying idle at home. Over the weekend, I was talking to the Governor of Nairobi, His Excellency Sakaja. Sakaja told me something amazing. He told me because of Kshs500 of free lunch that parents are supposed to pay, 1.3 million children in Nairobi have come back into school. The situation is so dire that we should never pretend. We should do everything possible to make sure that all the children of Kenya can access education for free. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I say this with maximum respect to the fact that the system ---"
}