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    "id": 507779,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I have waited the whole afternoon for this. I wanted to request for some direction. Today in the morning we were scheduled to have three Cabinet Secretaries appear and hon. Members of the Committees were in place to receive them and conduct business. The Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology has important and urgent matters about school fees pending for January; it is about the regulations on the amount of school fees that should be paid. The Cabinet Secretaries for all the three Ministries did not appear, including the one for Education, Science and Technology. Since there was no official communication about this, I seek your guidance. I am aware that the House maybe adjourning very soon, and this is a matter of national importance, especially in relation to the issues on fees that parents are supposed to pay next year. Could you, please, provide guidance on when these Cabinet Secretaries will appear, especially the one for education, so that parents do not go back to school in January paying exorbitant school fees, two times or three times the amount that was recommended in the Kilemi Mwiria Report, which was accepted by the President? It recommended that day schools should not charge more than Kshs.17,000 and boarding schools should not charge more than Kshs.40,000. I fear that if this House proceeds with other business and the Cabinet Secretary, who did not appear today, does not appear here to work with the representatives of the people, parents and the children of this country will be affected severely, especially in constituencies like Kibra where we do not have a lot of money. Many parents are expecting relief from the decisions that this House will make in conjunction with the Executive, about education of all our children as per the dictates of the Constitution. Our education at the basic level, the primary and secondary school, should be free and mandatory."
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