{"id":611907,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/611907/?format=json","text_counter":300,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Oyoo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2408,"legal_name":"James Onyango Oyoo","slug":"james-onyango-oyoo"},"content":"Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I take this opportunity to thank my colleague, hon. Okoth. This Motion could not have come at a better time. I come from a constituency which I inherited from professor who was also a senior official in the Ministry of Education. When I took over, I found a lot of challenges and I wanted to take education to a different level. It was very dear to my heart. I wanted to prove that good things depend on dreams and not on what people have read in books. I found the infrastructure very wanting and it is still wanting, although I am doing my best to improve it. I also found the challenge of students failing to go to school even those who are admitted to national schools because of lack of school fees. So, I brought a concept of paying school fees for students who are admitted to national schools from public primary schools in Muhoroni Constituency. I paid their school fees 100 per cent."}