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    "id": 611929,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I want to congratulate my colleague, the hon. Member for Kibra, for bringing this very noble idea for us to shed some more light. Days are coming and going and we are finding that principals are becoming so wise than the Ministry of Education itself. Whenever the Ministry issues a directive, they camouflage it and end up with a different idea all together. You will find that sometime last year, the Ministry issued a directive that all certificates should be given to those candidates who did examinations previously. Now, principals are asking students to settle a big part of the school fees between first and second terms. I do not know whether Prof. Kaimenyi, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education is aware that parents are now paying more during first and second terms so as to avoid the issue of fee balances in the third term. This is a very big challenge that is sending our students and pupils home just because the principals are going around the rule that they must give certificates to students. On the main point today, you find that principals are charging more and yet, you find that most constituencies are subsidizing the buildings in terms of tuition blocks and residential blocks using the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) money. In the fees structure, most of the money that we see is basically development money, and it is being subsidized using the CDF. County governments are chipping in to build dormitories and storage facilities like twin labs. Now the question is: Where do they want this money to come from? I want to recommend strongly that we implement the Kilemi Mwiria Report to the letter through the Ministry of Education. I rest my case. Thank you."
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