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    "id": 1499384,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1499384/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply to the Motion on Comprehensive Reform of Education Bursary Schemes to ensure Free Basic Education in Kenya. I have listened to my colleagues. There are those who supported, and others opposed. For my life, I cannot understand why any Member of Parliament and a representative of the people would not want free secondary education for their constituents. They are aware that parents are struggling. Their constituents come to their offices, pick up forms, fill them out, and return them. It is so undignified to make a parent leave their job to search for a form, fill it and get the bursary after a few months. We have to spread the bursary across the constituents because we look at it in terms of votes. We cannot look at education in terms of votes. Education is a constitutional right under Articles 43(1) and 53(1). Do not oppose free secondary education just because you want to hand out a cheque of Ksh5,000, Ksh10,000 or Ksh3,000. At the end of the day, you are not helping that student. That student will not be studying because they will be sent home many times. Even when the Ministry of Education"
}