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    "id": 1563804,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "those who did not vote for some people are not getting that money. This is what this Motion will free. Let us free our children from being under the mercy of anybody. That is why I like the resolutions this House is going to pass through this Motion. We really need to look at what the money is supposed to do. More than anything how can we free it, so that we do not discuss basic education? Madam Temporary Speaker, we know that in the Kenyan law we are talking about basic education. Basic education is from primary school to secondary school. We must stick to what we said in the Constitution. If we believed in that it is possible to have free basic education, why do we want to shy away from it now? Free primary education, that one we signed to it through international conventions, but when it came to our Constitution, we said we want free education up to Form Four. We must bite the bullet. Let us go for it. Let us reduce expenditure in all other sectors, but let this bring equality. Just as Hon. Mandela said, education becomes the equalizer. So we do not want to discriminate at the point of developing the brains of our children; at the point of developing professionals. Let us make it free. As I support, consolidation is not, in fact, just it. We need to know how much money the national Government has been spending. Members of Parliament through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) talk about these bursaries as the only thing that has been given out to families equitably. Through this Motion, we should make sure that everybody gets it without being pre-qualified by a chief, Member of County Assembly or Member of Parliament. It is a pity that the Members of Parliament are using this. For the last two days that is what we have been saying. We are not against NG-CDF. Money must go to the ground, but they should not be involved in it. We need to have committees that can deal with NG-CDF who are independent. Otherwise our Members of Parliament are not realizing that this 85 percent money that is in the national Government has no oversight arm. This is because they have completely lost it and they are going after the 15 percent which is in NG-CDF. They need to rethink the approach that they are having. Yes, NG-CDF, let us have money go to the constituency, but that money should not be run by the MCA, if I may add to that. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this and congratulate Sen. Thang’wa for bringing a Motion that will enable us to unlock one of the clauses in the Constitution that was supposed to have been a priority after promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. I support."
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