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    "id": 286480,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/286480/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lagat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 64,
        "legal_name": "Elijah Kiptarbei Lagat",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this time so that I can also contribute and comment about the Presidential Speech. I want to support the Presidential Speech by saying that it covered nearly everything that is required in human life as we live in Kenya. Most of the issues the President touched are based on the 1963 manifesto that talked of fighting for education, health and poverty eradication. I think what the Government is doing at the moment is that most of them are covering those areas. The most important thing is education. We know that when you educate somebody, it covers all those other things. Somebody will know how to take care of himself, how to fight poverty and how to live as a complete human being. I want to thank the Government because of the free education both in primary and secondary. The only worry is that most of the schools are understaffed and I think what the Government needs to do is to put more effort and employ teachers because we find that in most of the schools, teachers are less. The Government should take up the matter urgently. Another problem is that, for a long time, the Early Childhood Development (ECD) has been neglected and even though the Government had started employing teachers, it is not enough because if they employ five or ten teachers in a district or constituency, they are not enough. Since ECD is the foundation of education, I think we need to put more effort because that is when the child is growing and that is when it needs a lot of attention."
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