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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Mosop",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kibet Koech",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the Motion of Adjournment. It is coming at a very right time especially for those of us who are longing to go for the workshop so that we can participate fully in this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am grateful for what has already taken place in this House. We are going home having already made some history that we passed the two Bills. I believe it will go along way in making Kenya a real Kenya. As we break for the Adjournment, I realise that by the time we will come back, our schools would have closed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to take this opportunity to applaud the move by the Government to offer free secondary education. I happen to have been working as a principal before coming here and I understand that the majority of Kenyans today are not able to pay school fees. It is the responsibility of this Government, and this House, to ensure the success of the free secondary education. Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the same note, I am aware that there are many students who have not benefited from the said free secondary education. It is my humble request to the Minister 406 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 25, 2008 for Education to give real assurance to all those students who have not benefited from the free secondary education that they will be able to benefit before the schools are closed. We are likely to find some of them engaging themselves in other activities over the holidays. Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am also aware that the principals in our secondary schools are having it rough though they are not speaking it out. One, all parents were informed that there will be free secondary education. None of our parents, therefore, paid much to sustain the students in schools. I am aware, having been in the Secondary School Head Teachers Association, that there are many principals who are expected to pay bills incurred by their schools through purchase of textbooks and other facilities. It is my humble request again to the Minister that, as we break, he should give them an assurance so that those suppliers who are owed money by the schools do not harass our principals. It is also good for the Minister for Education to come out clear especially on the issue of holidays, given the fact that nothing much went on in our schools during this First Term. As we adjourn, I still want to appeal to our colleagues that, as we go home, it is necessary that we bond very seriously. Let us be fair and open to one another. I do not mind personally going round the country on an invitation talking on the need for reconciliation and the need to have one country; a Kenya that all of us shall be proud of. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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