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    "id": 373117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want, first of all, to congratulate my colleague from Westlands Constituency for bringing to the House an issue which was deliberated on this Floor during the Tenth Parliament. It is obvious that there is going to be a crisis due to lack of clarity on what should happen to schools that were previously owned by communities, including church communities. Therefore, as this petition goes to the Committee, I would urge them to look at the HANSARD Report in which the debate on this matter was captured in the last Parliament and see the kind of victimisation that happens to students who go to such schools. Some of those schools are the best in Nairobi. We have put a lot of effort. Parents are concerned. It would be a shame that as communities or trustees take back their schools, the Government would sit back and watch, bearing in mind the fact that four major schools in Nairobi have parents and students who have been left in limbo. I believe that this House has the capacity to deal with this matter. Therefore, we add our voices to the petitioners and ask the Government to look at the ownership of such schools because, at the end of the day, children should never be discriminated against. It does not matter whether one goes to a private school, public school or an informal school. All children are children of Kenya and have their rights under the Bill of Rights in the Constitution."
}