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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this very important Motion. First of all, I would like to thank my good friend, hon. Dukicha, for bringing this Motion. I realise that you probably have come to this House because of boarding school, like myself. I want to say that the boarding schools for girls is something that this country must take note of, because most of us who grew up in those ASAL areas in Maasai Mara went to boarding schools. Really without going to a boarding school, I probably would have never come to this House. Whenever drought occurred we were sent by our parents to go and look after cows, and that was actually where the problem is. I would probably have included boys in this Motion, but I know girls have more problems than boys. However, I am not going to get into that. I want to support this Motion in totality because I think for a long time our girls have had a lot of problems, particularly in day schools. Whenever kids go to school they get themselves into a lot of trouble; this is because of the fact that they travel so many kilometers from their respective homes to schools. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, so, I want to support this Motion by urging hon. Members of Parliament, particularly those who come from ASAL areas, to make sure that they use a lot of their Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to build boarding schools. It will help a lot and I know this CDF has done wonders in these ASAL areas. I also want to urge hon. Members that now that we have devolved governments, particularly the county governments, we should use funds like the Equalisation Fund to build boarding schools; this will go a long way in helping the Government to have so many of them. The transition stage, as my colleagues have said is critical; a lot of girls start school at Standard One but when they reach Standard Seven and Eight, during their puberty stage, they start dropping out of school because of early marriages. This is because of various reasons but the main reason is that when they go to their homes in the ASAL areas their parents assign them chores. When kids leave school they do not go back home and revise their homework. That is why they drop out of school. So, I am urging this House to wholly support this Motion; we are actually targeting these particular areas which have been marginalized, and have so many other problems apart from those affecting girls."
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