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    "id": 542181,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngikor",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Ngikor Nixon",
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    "content": "the abolishment of this fee will give them a chance to continue with their education. In some schools, you will find some students repeating classes because they cannot afford to pay this examination fee. They are forced to drop from school. Those communities that believe that education is meant for the boy-child and not the girl-child use this as a scapegoat. You will hear some parents saying, “I have no money to pay the examination fee and that is why my kid is at home.” So, if we can abolish this examination fee, they will have no reason to keep their kids at home. This will help those communities to take their kids to school. The other issue is on girl-child education. In some areas, the girl- child has been adversely affected. Some of the reasons the parents of these girls give is that Free Primary Education has no meaning to them. So, I support this idea of abolishing the examination fee in primary and secondary education. Parents will have no reasons to keep these girls at home. In communities like Samburu, Turkana and Pokot the girls are always at home because their parents have no money to pay this examination fee. The abolition of the examination fee will help us to take these girls to school. We want the Free Primary Education to be really free. We need to abolish the examination fee, school fees, and all the other fees that are paid by pupils in the course of their education. Under Article 43(f) of the Constitution, 2010, all children have a right to basic education. I support this and I want all the levies paid in schools to be abolished so that our kids can have access to education at all levels because it is their constitutional right. This will make the communities I have talked about realize that education is also one way of them eking out a living. They will understand that education is the key to life. With those few remarks, I support."
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