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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this Petition by my brother, Hon. Gatobu. He has put it rightly. We have a problem in the way we implement resolutions or findings which are done by competent bodies in this country and especially as far as education is concerned. For example, like the Kilemi Mweria Report, once it was put given to the president and it was given out to be implemented, some interpreted it opposite because some schools started increasing their fees while others reduced. It became now a fuss which is not very clear. It is important now for the Government that once something has been passed, let it be implemented as per the letter and findings of the experts who did it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this free primary education is a big problem. Like in day schools, we have very many children who are dropping out of these schools because they have no fees. For your information, those children who go to day schools are not those who are not bright rather they go there because they are poor. It is high time the Government looks into it so that no child in a day school will be sent home to go and look for fees. Finally, there is this issue of free primary education which is based on the number of children in the school. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology should endeavour to be collecting data early enough immediately Form One students report to school and not use previous years’ data. As we talk now, we have all Form One students admitted in school, especially in my constituency. Most of them have not been factored and it means that schools are getting lesser money than they should get."
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