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    "id": 611926,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/611926/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Makenga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1650,
        "legal_name": "Richard Makenga Katemi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to thank my colleague, the hon. Member for Kibra, for bringing this Motion for Adjournment to discuss the school fees problem in the country. I want to say that the current fees structure is extremely high. In the real sense, the fees structure is prohibitive because most parents cannot afford the kind of fees being charged in secondary schools. I want to give a very good example where a child has passed very well and has been admitted in a county school, but is not able to pay even a penny to get admission. It is unfortunate that we have the free primary education which was started by President Kibaki, but when we prepare our children to go to secondary school, they end up not even accessing their rights to education because they are not able to afford fees. Some schools are charging extremely high school fees. I have a fees structure here whereby a school is charging something called PE/BoM teachers and they charge about Kshs4,000 per child. The school has a population of about 500 children and yet, the number of teachers the BoM has engaged are only two. Therefore, the total amount which is collected per year is about Kshs2 million, and they end up paying only Kshs200,000. Where does the balance of the money go? Surely, this is something that has to be looked into very seriously."
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