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    "id": 241815,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/241815/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I have no evidence to suggest that some headteachers of secondary schools, in cahoots with PTAs and DEBs, conspired to beat the Ministry's guidelines on fees. (b) I am further not aware that this is a conspiracy of the rich against the poor. (c) The Government has taken a number of steps to ensure that parents are not exploited by school administrators. The steps are: (i) Issuing annual fee guidelines for various types of schools, that is, national schools to day schools. (ii) Directing school headteachers in public institutions to observe the fees guidelines and avoid arbitrary increases by charging extra levies. (iii) Issuing guidelines on how to charge extra levies and emphasising on the process through which that must go before it is approved, that is, through the DEBS and so on. (iv) We have asked the BoGs to co-opt the PTA's chairperson, treasurer and a member of the school BoG to act as watchdogs on behalf of the parents. 2168 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 19, 2006 Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are the measures that have been taken and we are all concerned about arbitrary increases."
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