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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Wahome",
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        "legal_name": "Alice Muthoni Wahome",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am happy to contribute to this Motion. I want to thank hon. Okoth for bringing it. It is an urgent matter in terms of how we deal with it. As we address it in this House, many children are still at home because public schools in this country are more expensive than universities. If you go to Alliance High School, Nairobi School and Lenana School, their school fees range between Ksh70,000 and Ksh98,000. The Members of this House are aware of the specific costs because we are paying school fees through our Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). The other thing is that when the children get to school, more than half have not paid school fees and they are sent home within the same week by the principals. We have lost education. I have seen the Cabinet Secretary addressing the public and the principals, setting guidelines and none of those guidelines have been implemented. Where is the problem? Is the Cabinet Secretary possibly in collusion or in cohort with the principals? It is not possible that he is the Executive and then the principals within his Ministry are continuing to do this unchecked and unaddressed. To date, there are schools which have no facilities and they will charge Kshs40,000 or Kshs39,000. The school fees also have an item on uniform. The uniforms are bought at specific outfit centres at between Kshs11,000 and Kshs12,000 per unit. Are these not enterprises for the principals and that is why they specifically recommend a certain place where the uniforms should be bought? There is a whole list from buckets to toiletries. If you look at the lists, the parents are using between Kshs20,000 and Kshs23,000 to exhaust the list including the books. It is time something is done."
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