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    "id": 367311,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/367311/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support this Motion and appreciate what hon. Kinoti has done in ensuring that the services of education are brought closer to the people. When we speak about devolution, we do not speak about the basis services without establishing how these services will be implemented. This Motion is a practical example of devolution because you find that the county director of education who has been seconded to a certain county does not even know the terms of reference that he is supposed to deal with. I think this is a very innovative way of ensuring that devolution is felt not just by any Kenyan but even the ordinary mwananchi and poor family that is at the county level. We appreciate what our former President, Mr. Kibaki, did by introducing the free primary education but we find that much as the free primary education opened gates and doors for every child in Kenya, it did not ensure what happens to the child after the primary education. This is what the Jubilee Government is doing by ensuring that there is not only free primary education but also free secondary education. But then you will find that it is not just the poor children who are suffering. We also find that there are orphans; children who cannot be accessed by anyone because their parents are not there. They are suffering yet they are very intelligent children and need education. We appreciate banks like Equity Bank that have a provision that gives children who are intelligent but needy the wings to fly. What hon. Kinoti is doing with his wisdom is to give the children who are poor wings to fly. I dream of a day that I will be invited by hon. Ababu to his constituency so that we go and see he has established the Ababu Namwamba Foundation if he does not have it already and when I will also invite him to my county to come and establish the FK Foundation. This is what we are meant to do as leaders. I urge this House that this is the Motion that we need to ensure that not only do we receive education at a certain level but our children go to the highest level possible"
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