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    "id": 601596,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/601596/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill. From the outset, I thank the Committee for what they have brought to the Floor of this House. We need to support the Bill because education is the backbone of any developing country or community. In Kenya, education has not been taken seriously as it should. We are losing a lot of manpower especially by neglecting bright and needy students to the extent that they drop out of school because of the structures and the systems which we have in our education sector. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill because it spells out some rules which are going to be binding especially to the parents. Sometimes, parents are ignorant, negligent or they do not care about the education of their children. This is especially parents who have never gone to school in the rural areas and have not been exposed to understand the importance of education. I support the Bill, especially Clause 40, which mandates the principals and head teachers to find out where the children who drop out of school go and the causes of dropping out. The principals are charged with the responsibility of making a follow-up with the parents and giving a report to the Sub-County and County Education Boards for the purposes of making sure that a particular child is traced wherever he or she went and taken back to school."
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