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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, if we really want to benefit from the productivity of our human resource, then we have to focus on education, and not just education but education for all. I would like to commend the President because he talked about retaining Kenyan children in school, in his Speech. That was good. However, this has been said again and again but children are still being sent away from school because of school levies, like activity fees, examination fees and other small fees. So, children walk to school in the morning and they are asked to go back home. What do children have to do with the contract between the Government and schools? Why do we involve our children in bringing their parents to school? The reverse should be true. It should be the parents going to school to bring their children from there. However, every now and then, especially in the rural Kenya, you will find children being asked to go home and ask their parents to go to school. This is unfair and barbaric. We have to stop that kind of behaviour where children are sent away from school. The President also touched on empowerment of the youth and women. This has been there but the challenge is equity; that is the level of equity. We have some rural communities which have never realised the benefits of Women Enterprise Development Fund or the Youth Enterprise Development Fund. We also have the transfer of cash to elderly people. I can say here again and again that, that has never surfaced in Shinyalu Constituency. The elderly have never benefited from the quarterly stipend that is given to elderly people. This should be done equitably and not in one place while the other place is left out."
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