{"id":368628,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/368628/?format=json","text_counter":184,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Gatobu","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":1322,"legal_name":"Boniface Gatobu Kinoti","slug":"boniface-gatobu-kinoti"},"content":"This is an area that I am very passionate about. I was not brought up in an area that is very different from the poverty that stricken Kenyans all over. My grandfather was a carpenter and he worked so hard and his first born daughter, my mother, became a teacher in the same school where he was a carpenter. The literature teacher worked so hard that I became the writer that I am and in 2010, I won the Writer of the Year Award. I have seen what education can do to this dear nation. My other grandfather was a peasant living in the largest rural slum in Kenya, namely, Machaka in Mburi. He worked so hard that my father became a teacher and the son of a teacher became the Member of"}