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    "id": 158220,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/158220/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also stand to support the Supplementary Estimates and thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for presenting these Estimates because, as you all realise, the Ministry of Education is one of the hardest hit. This is because of the Free Primary Education Programme and the free day secondary school education. Disbursements to these programmes are of necessity and more so when schools reopen next week. Therefore, the bringing of the Supplementary Estimates at this level would be an impetus in ensuring that our institutional centres and particularly primary, secondary and tertiary institutions are given an opportunity to be able to achieve their stated objectives. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you remember one of the most ambitious and yet very noble programmes was the School Feeding Programme. The drought we have experienced, which ended last week, and poverty indices that have been so clear, have made it very difficult to reach out to 1.2 million children who needed to be given the subsidy in the School Feeding Programme. Albeit with the support of the budgetary provisions and additional support from the Treasury; being conscious of this problem, and the World Food Programme (WFP), we are now able to finally approximate the number that requires a very aggressive school feeding programme. In this way, they can also join other children to attain their potential. Mr. Speaker, Sir, these Supplementary Estimates will unlock some of those finances which are necessary and important for us to have a flow-in of other stakeholders supporting this programme. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other aspect of this is the tragedy we have had with the recent onset of rains. There have been very ghastly winds which have blown off roofs and flattened some schools. Some children may not have a place to study in. I would have"
}