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    "id": 567207,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Odanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Makokha Odanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I stand guided. I was saying that Article 54(1)(b) of the Constitution of Kenya gives a right to children living with disabilities to access education. The CS has discriminated against children with disabilities by denying them adequate funding so that they can get educational services that they require on time. The situation has been very grave in most of our schools with special needs. Therefore, the CS has failed in his mandate. Section 6 of the Education Act 2007 is about boards of management. For quite a long time, some schools and other institutions have failed to have boards of management to run them. Some have stayed without them for even two, three or four years. That means the schools have been running illegally. That has been a breeding ground for corruption and mismanagement. Tendering processes have not been done well. This is of very grave concern in the education system in Kenya. Apart from that, we have the county education boards which have been formed in this country. Those county education boards were inaugurated early last year. I want to report that those boards have been operating without a single penny. They have no budget. Some of the members are disabled and they have to go to those boards to make important decisions. Hon. Speaker, you can imagine such members of the boards going there and then going back home without facilitation. That means that quite a number of them do not make it to the meetings or are de-motivated. For that matter, I want to say that the CS must go."
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