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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S. W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I want to thank Members for their contributions to the Motion. The issue of education is important to our country because we are shaping the future generation. The issue of school fees has been a big challenge. Last year, my Committee raised the said issue and a task force was formed. Towards the end of last year, there was a ready report of the task force with several recommendations, not only for school fees, but many other recommendations including the recommendation on school ranking. We have parents who are taking their children to Form One, and we do not have a clear guideline on how much school fees should be paid. We met with the Cabinet Secretary for Education (CS) today. On Tuesday, as a Committee, we are going to meet with Kilemi Mwiria, who was the Chairman of the task force. I urge the Members to go through that report. The recommendations are there. The membership of that task force included everybody. The biggest concern that has been raised by hon. Ken Okoth and the Members of this House is that children from poor background are being denied equal opportunity to access education, which is a basic right enshrined in the Constitution. I would like to urge the Members of my Committee, as we meet Kilemi Mwiria and the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, that we need to come with a proper report that we can table in this House. If the Ministry is not able to look at the report and give us clear guidelines, I would urge the Members of this House, once we have the report from the Committee, to 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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