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    "id": 365987,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rop",
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        "legal_name": "Jackson Kipkorir Rop",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want to thank my dear friend and neighbour, hon. Hassan Dukicha, Member for Galole from Tana River County, for bringing this very important Motion to this House. Girl-child education is of essence. As has been stated, educating a girl is educating a community. Therefore, there is need to help the people from the ASAL community to have enough boarding facilities for their children. In the ASAL areas, you can see the dangers the girls go through in terms of the distance they have to travel to school and in terms of the insecurity in those areas. Poverty that is prevailing in the region makes the girl-child to be an endangered species. Parents always keep them as a source of income. Therefore, they would want to marry them off as early as ten to 12 years old thus endangering their lives. I support the Motion that we should have enough boarding facilities in those areas. In my constituency, I have started a programme where every ward will have a public boarding primary school. The essence of this is to promote education in the region and improve performance. Not all the children who go to school have enough facilities at home. Some do not have enough space in their homes and others use the lantern lamp. So, I have thought of having a boarding public primary school in every ward in my constituency, so that we can boost education in the region. The ASAL areas are sparsely populated and schools have not been built as closer as in other places. The distance between one school and the other is over ten kilometers. So, you can imagine a girl-child walking for ten kilometers and back and she is sent to go and collect water. Compare that child with a child who has water within the precincts of her home and has enough time to read. These children are endangered. I want to support the Motion by my brother, hon. Dukicha, so that we can have enough facilities to enable these students continue with their education smoothly. We have been having a lot of inequalities in this country in terms of resources. We have been talking of resource allocation. As a result of that, there is the Equalization Fund which is to be allocated to the under-developed areas. The same applies to education. There have been disparities in education in this country and as a result, we need to have an equitable distribution of knowledge in the region through building enough facilities in these areas, so that the people can educate their children. I support this Motion, which is timely and well intended. I believe that all the Members from the ASAL areas will see the reason to support it, so that children from those areas can get quality education. The intention of my brother, hon. Dukicha, is to have these areas develop like other areas. As it has been said, educating a girl-child is educating a nation. These areas have been marginalized in terms of education. As such, they have not developed like other areas. I support this Motion, so that we can help the girl-child in the ASAL areas to get quality education."
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