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"content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I want to urge the House to consider the petition brought before it by hon. Kang’ata, which I really appreciate and want to associate myself with the problems that the poor parents and children from poor families face in this country. We also need to look into a situation whereby, as we try to provide or set aside money for provision of food in schools, we make parents aware that this country can never have everything being given for free. I am saying this because we have a situation whereby we are creating very irresponsible parents in this country. I am talking as a leader. On Friday, I was attending education day for one of my schools and in one of the schools which are doing very well, parents are making noise that they have to pay an extra Kshs.20 for purposes of their children getting extra couching. You fail to understand why any parent, if they are worth being called a parent, would make noise when they are being asked to chip in something. The Kibaki era is gone whereby children or parents used to say this is a Kibaki child. So, parents must become responsible. We will do what we can as Parliament, but we also want those that get to sire children to know that costs must come with whatever they do as parents."
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