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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Clearly, what is happening is a conspiracy to keep poor people entrapped in the cycle of poverty. Most of the Members here have been able to break through the cycle of poverty because they got a chance to acquire education. As I speak, children of the poor people in this country cannot afford to go to the schools they have been admitted to. Those places are traded. They are sold to children of people who are able. There is a conspiracy. This is a conspiracy. This is, in fact, the ugliest face of capitalism which really defines this administration. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the right to basic education is a constitutional right. In fact, if you read the Constitution properly that right transcends primary education up to secondary education. That is because children are children up to secondary education. What we are seeing is basically discrimination on the basis of social and economic status which is also against the Constitution. Something, certainly, has to be done to rein in those principals and, more importantly, is for order to be restored in Jogoo House. I cannot believe that those principals are doing those things on their own. The principals cannot have the spine to go against Government policy. Somebody somewhere is urging them on and that person has to be named. If I go on and on, you will realise that they have got crisis after crisis in the education sector in this country. In the morning, I said that the education sector is facing a crisis of monumental proportions. As we speak, six weeks after the commencement of the first term, children in Marsabit, Mandera, Wajir and Garissa have not learned because of insecurity, and the Ministry is unable to solve the impasse. Teachers have failed to go The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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