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    "id": 697584,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will find that even public schools find it hard to meet the criterion that is set for the minimum acreage of land. So, this Bill is timely. Let us support it and ensure that it is inclusive and it helps Kenya to rise again because the foundation of our children in the first few years is very important. Let us make sure it is inclusive and where there is talk about fees, let us not discriminate. There are poor people in this country like refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons who under the current guidelines proposed in the Bill in Clause 39, for instance, will be required to pay fees to send their children for basic education. We must make sure that we take a step back from that and make sure that any child who lives in Kenya can go to school and not just a child whose parents are Kenyan citizens. With those few remarks, I beg to second and hope that the House will do justice to this Bill in the coming week. I am certain they will and promote education as my policy and philosophy is education first or e limu kwanza. Thank you."
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