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    "id": 1522192,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "comparable to county Y. We need to find out how the marginalized counties can be handheld to ensure citizens in those counties do not suffer lack of access to services. This is because we are deliberately refusing to implement the principle of equality, non- discrimination, equity and equality. You will agree with me that the political question on the table in Kenya today is equity. Whatever factions and communities are out there are moaning on how they are not accessing certain kind of service. The most important thing we need to do as Parliament and Executive is to engage in deliberate moves to handhold the regions that have been marginalized. These regions' children are suffering from this marginalization. Madam Temporary Speaker, I nearly cried when the Speaker during the funeral of the father talked about his classmate who was a top student, but never got to proceed because he was poor, and yet this is the same country that has bursaries being issued by every other person. We have bursaries by Members of Parliament (MPs), Members of the County Assembly (MCAs), governors, the President and the Kenyan National Library Services (KNLS). In fact, we are not counting the Wings to Fly by the Equity Bank, the Cooperative Bank, the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and the ordinary Kenyans that are still fundraising for people to go to school. Yet, we still have more poor children out of school with all these monies. I recently asked the Minister for Education to give us an aggregate of public funds that are being spent on bursaries. He said he does not know because he does not receive returns on the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF). Madam Temporary Speaker, if we do not get education and health right in this country, we should be ready to fall off the cliff. This is not an issue about Teachers Service Commission (TSC) teacher salary, but a string of aspects of inequality. Chairperson, Standing Committee on Education, maybe we should try to find out how many schools in Kilifi and other similar areas have laboratories, children and buildings under which they are studying? We must ask ourselves, is it fair that those children are assessed at the same level with children that have facilities that are overflowing? Overflowing so much that we are now looking on how to give them a meal. The next thing we are looking for is the quality of meal we are giving them. However, we have a Kenyan child who is schooling under a tree. It is 15 years after the passing of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. The Parliament needs to take the issue of equity and access to education seriously. We need to pull together to ensure that the public health insurance scheme that has just been introduced by the Kenya Kwanza Government works. The Government needs to admit that there are many things that need to be corrected about it. All of us need to find a way of getting it to work because when it does not work, we are killing people. Many of the people we are killing do not have the voice we have. Many of the people we are killing are not the political class to make headlines. There is a reason why Kenyans were obsessed with the words of human rights of equity, equality and non-discrimination in every Chapter of the Constitution. They The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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