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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to really congratulate mheshimiwa Mohamed Diriye for bringing this Motion. I, therefore, stand to support. These are some of the very basic issues that we need to address as the leadership of this country before even we talk about the very big things that we talk about. If we give our children education then we can talk about a solid nation. I support the Motion and congratulate the Mover. This was a noble idea that was brought by the NARC Government in 2003. You realize that it is now ten years since then. I brought a similar Motion which was incorporating both FPE and secondary education. This was during the Tenth Parliament. However, because of the tug of war that we had between PNU and ODM it was not possible for us to implement it, but this Parliament passed it. So, on the aspect of the Kshs3,060, the Mover has based that on some statistics which are detailed based on learning materials and so on. At that time, I also did the same, but I was looking at it globally and the way the economy had grown from 2002/2003 up to the last Parliament. We started off with a budget of about Kshs300 billion, but two years ago we were talking about Kshs1.5 trillion. Right now we are talking about an economy which has grown from Kshs300 billion to about Kshs1.6 trillion. So, looking at that, it meant that the President and the leadership by then had noble ideas, but the technocrats who were supposed to be advising on how the economy is growing were not advising on the aspect of education. I really want to commend the Government then because as much as we were talking about the reduced quality of education because of numbers---Even the numbers that we attained from, say, 5.9 million up to 8.7 million now, I think if we did not have this scheme we would not have achieved it. Quite a number of children were just at home not going to school. I think that Bill helped to have as many children as possible go to school. That is commendable on the part of the Government of that time. We are now talking about Vision 2030. We cannot realize that without educated and trained manpower. So, it is important that the Government considers increasing this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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