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    "id": 611902,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "primary and secondary education. This was in own campaign manifestos from 2003, but the reality is not there. My colleagues have talked about high school fees, but there is something that is very worrying. As the Cabinet Secretary tries to justify the marks obtained by pupils in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education and the selection to schools, there are many pupils who obtained over 300 marks who have not been admitted to any school. He was telling us today that they are going to have a second selection, but if you have so many of them out there who have not been admitted to any school, I do not know whether he is going to create schools. If they are more than half of them who are not joining any school, how is he going to do it in the second selection? I do not know if it is going to work. So, there is the Basic Education Act, which we passed in this House in January 2013 and I do not know whether the Ministry looked at it. It provides precisely that no student will be chased away from school for none payment of school fees. It is in the law that we passed in this House. I know we were just going for elections and Members were busy that time with campaigns and may not have understood it, but the law is there. It is only the parents who can be pursued in the issue of payment of school fees. I have been paying school fees for a student in Keveye, who is in Form Four now. On Friday last week, we paid Kshs20,000 and for the balance of Kshs27,000, the student is at home now. I was asking whether these students must pay fees in the first two months. The balance is almost half. So, you wonder whether we are going for performance or for collection of fees. When the Cabinet Secretary is announcing results, I have never seen him saying that a certain principal scored highly because he was good at chasing students for fee balances. He only talks about the scores that the principals have achieved and not how good they were at chasing students away because of school fees."
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