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    "id": 392872,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I sit in the Committee on Education, Information and Technology, and I had the privilege of interrogating the Cabinet Secretary for Education. Most of these schools that are retaining these certificates are actually community schools which rely almost entirely on the funds which are paid by the parents who have children in those schools. Considering that the Cabinet Secretary or the Government gives a portion of the money for academic purposes, the money which is accruing and which is not paid was actually meant for maintaining the students at school. It was basically for food. Therefore, this is an arrangement that has actually been done in order to benefit the students. Therefore, some of the parents who took this considerately have actually come back to school and given the school a substitute security which they can use so that they can have their certificates. Some of these students whose certificates are held in schools are very successful business people elsewhere. Therefore, they can actually help to sustain the schools by making alternative arrangements rather than forcing the schools to give out these certificates and actually go bankrupt and close down. It might be better that some arrangement is made. I am glad that there are a lot of parents who have actually provided alternative security for this because they understand the need for the students to---"
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