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    "id": 611940,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. From the outset, I want to thank hon. Okoth, a great parliamentarian, which whom I share the same alma mater, for having brought this issue of national importance to this Parliament. Education is a right and our children deserve that right. I thank the Government for appointing the Dr. Kilemi Mwiria’s taskforce to look at the issue of education. The recommendations in that report are very good and very practical. I call upon the Government to implement that report in totality, especially the issue to do with fees for secondary education. The Jubilee Manifesto clearly states that this Government is going to provide free day secondary education and affordable secondary education. They have a duty and a commitment to this nation to fulfil their obligation. That was in their Manifesto. Kenyans are watching and time is running out. It is time this Government does what it committed itself to do. I have listened to Prof. Kaimenyi’s argument that he needs about Kshs.11 billion to implement that taskforce’s recommendations. Yes, it is a lot money, but that is just 1 per cent of our total national Budget. This Government can re-allocate the existing funding within the existing Budget during this Supplementary period and ensure that we get that money to enable our students and our children to access good quality education in our secondary schools."
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