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    "id": 365933,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/365933/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 840,
        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion and I rely on the principle that you are supposed to invest in your children and not invest for your children. We, as parents, at times have misplaced ideas concerning where we want to acquire property, and thinking that our children will enjoy it. What matters is the investment that you make in your child, especially a girl-child. I support this Motion on account that some of the ASAL areas have pastoralist communities who keep moving, as is their culture, in search of pasture for their livestock. We find that for a girl to acquire education, we cannot afford to have them move with their parents to new pastures. Therefore, a boarding school is the most convenient and assured means of ensuring that your child goes to school as provided for in Chapter Four of our Constitution. In parts of the county I come from, especially Nyambene, girls do not go to school, and if they do they drop out. The reason is that there are cultural practices that"
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