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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion and strongly so, just like my colleagues. I am one such person who has gone through life from education and from my background in a lot of hardship. I know what it means not only to struggle to have one’s school fees paid, but even to have those certificates released. Thus, I would speak from experience. Indeed when a young person has graduated from high school and is probably seeking greener pastures or employment in any section or sector of our country without much support, because as it has been said by most of my colleagues, actually this problem affects largely the most poor of the poor in our communities. So, going job hunting and probably to be attached without certificates or maybe even without a fallback position where you would go probably to a relative who would help you, it is an extremely traumatizing experience for our young people. So, I support this Motion. In the same breath, Madam Temporary Speaker, I would think that it is important then that we give this legislation the support and the legs it would need to be implementable, so that as has been said by the previous speakers, that indeed this piece of legislation was passed twice earlier in Parliament and we still have this problem; we need to ask ourselves: “Why do we have the problem persisting?” Madam Temporary Speaker, we know that primary education is free in our country. So, when students join high school, as many as would have passed the grade of admission join. In a class, for example, we have students who can afford to pay fees; we have some who would probably struggle to pay fees; we have some that are poor and probably others that are abjectly poor. And because there is no regulation or policy framework that would say that this person can pay school fees and this one cannot, then that, left open as it is, is bound to make this problem continue to exist because probably a head of an institution would find himself or herself in a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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