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    "id": 578082,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I really want to thank my colleague and my name sake Hon. Abdikadir Ore, for bringing in this very important Petition before the House. The situation in northern Kenya is dire; the children of northern Kenya are seriously disadvantaged with regard to education. For the whole of the last two terms, our children have not gone to school. They are at home, there are no teachers, the schools are closed yet there is very minimal action coming from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. I really wish to beg that you direct that this Petition be given the urgency it deserves. Our children are going to do examinations in another two months or so, yet those children have not seen a teacher in front of them for almost the whole of this year, yet, they are expected to compete with the rest of Kenyans when it comes to the marking of examinations. This Petition will give the children of northern Kenya an opportunity for their denied rights to be addressed by this Hon. House; I really beg that the Committee that is going to take up this particular Petition does so with seriousness and also takes an opportunity to go and schools in this region. I have about 30 schools in my constituency and I can tell you that only two out of those 30 schools have had half of the teachers in classrooms. More than half of the schools have been closed for the last two years, and the situation is the same across the northern region of Kenya. This Petition is urgent; I join the Petitioners in praying that you direct that the Committee takes this issue up urgently and undertakes an immediate fact finding mission to find out the situation and propose adequate measures to be taken. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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