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    "id": 612022,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/612022/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support this and I do not want to repeat myself. First, I have confidence in the current Cabinet Secretary (CS) because of his experience and having vetted him I have no doubt that he can perform. The question is: Why is he not performing? Is there a problem or a hindrance? The issue is this: The Ministry of Education bursaries, which the Ministry has been giving are no longer there. What is the reason? This is because this is the money that was meant for bright but poor children. I have looked at the Supplementary Budget and I have not seen any requisition from the Ministry. If the Ministry is listening now, please move with speed so that we can have that in our Supplementary Budget. Secondly, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Ministry said that registration fee for Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations should not be paid for. The question is: Does it mean the examination fee was removed and some fees somewhere was increased to compensate? It beats logic to reduce the examination fee and then increase the school fees to be paid. I am calling upon the Ministry of Education, we are here to work with you. If there is any issue, please come to us and let us see how we are going to resolve it. Our children must be able to go to school. We are told that they are going to provide free secondary school education for day schools if we give them Kshs11 billion. If you look at it, Kshs11billion is about one per cent of Kenya’s Kshs1.8 trillion Budget. If that is the proposal then they should move with speed so that we can pass that Kshs11billion if at all we are going to have free day secondary schools because they form about 70 per cent of the schools in this country. Education is key to success. Some of us would not be here today if it was not for education. We are going to work together as a team but we want them to pull up their socks. If you look at the Kilemi Mwiria Report, senior members of the Ministry of Education were involved. People from Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and Kenya National Association of Parents (KNAP) Secretary-General Mr. Musau Ndunda were there. Why can this Report not come to Parliament so that we see what amendments we can do so that the Committee on Implementation can move with speed and implement it? We are proud of our leaders who are here and we want to move together. If there is a problem, come before us because we have ears that can listen so that the children of this country can go to school. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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