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    "id": 298126,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/298126/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we talk about Vision 2030, education is going to be key. I am happy that through the same initiative of the Government under the leadership of the President, he was able to introduce free primary and secondary education. I remember I brought a Motion here asking the Government to increase this money from the current Kshs1,030 they allocate every child in primary school to Kshs3,090. I also urged them to double the amount they gave to students in secondary school. Currently, they get Kshs10,650. I proposed that they be given Kshs20,350. By so doing, we will be able to reach many Kenyans. So, these are some of the changes that we would like the Government to take into account; increase money for the children who are in primary and secondary schools for the free primary and secondary education. I am happy that, so far, the Government has tried. We said that the education officers should be responsible enough to be able to know how this money is spent. The Ministry of Education has been careless. This money should not be managed by the headmaster alone. The Ministry must be actively involved. The money that we take ourselves, like from CDF, everybody wants to know what we are doing with it. But the money for infrastructure from the Ministry of Education goes into an account. It is the head teacher who knows that money has been dispersed. No other person knows about it. Therefore, it becomes very difficult to account for it. Sometimes, it leads to double accounting because we budget through the CDF to assist schools and yet the Ministry of Education has sent money directly to the schools. We are not given feedback. That is why I was saying that the feedback element in Government should be improved."
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