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    "id": 611885,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "We have said Kaimenyi must go. We have said so many things but it does not help even if he went tomorrow. We are the ones who approve and apportion money. We must sit down and say how we want to fund education in this country. Article 53 of the Constitution is very clear that we must have free primary education. For this to happen, this is one of the areas where we need to realize that progressively, we should be going forward in reducing school fees and not increasing it. The biggest scandal after the Anglo-Leasing and Goldenberg scandals was the Free Primary Education scandal. It has gone haywire. Our children are languishing in bad schools. There is no infrastructure. I have seen the Minister here and I want to tell him that he has the necessary legal instruments to implement Free Secondary Education (FSE) and Free Primary Education (FPE). Please act. It is very important that the Minister concerned acts in areas where he has the opportunity and the capacity to do so. In terms of monies required for us to have true Free Primary Education and Free Secondary Education even for a day, we are now in the process of doing supplementary budgets. Can we be told how much it will cost so that this Parliament can have the opportunity to do this? The Ministry must rein in on this class of people, the so-called principals and head teachers of schools. If there is a circular, it should be implemented. Finally, the Kilemi Mwiria Report should be brought before this Assembly so that we know what is in it and see which parts of it can be implemented. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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