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    "id": 365652,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/365652/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Melly",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 12849,
        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I want to contribute and support the petition. In the last ten years, the Government introduced the free primary education and it is still at the figure it was at that time, yet we have inflation and a lot of effects on that particular amount of money that was given. As a Member of the Education, Research and Technology Committee and a Vice Chairman for that matter, I want to state it here clearly that we in the Committee had asked the Ministry to factor in the need to increase that amount of money for free primary and secondary education. Even as we talk today, and we tend to say that we are giving out free primary and secondary education, the money is not enough; we are cheating ourselves. If the Government is really serious about giving free primary and secondary education, it has to factor in enough money that is in line with the changes in inflation and the cost of living. So, I am in agreement with the petition of hon. Kang’ata, and we really need the Government to factor in enough money and make free primary and secondary education a reality. It is not about giving out freebies, the way hon. Members might believe. In this country, most of our citizens are very poor to raise even Kshs.50. Majority of Kenyans live below the poverty line. If we are not alive to this, it is sad. I want this House to know that most people in this country are not even able to raise money to put food on"
}