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    "id": 761488,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "I, therefore, rise to support the 2017/2018 Supplementary Budget. This is a critical time for Kenya and supplementary budgets are always provided for when there are unforeseen circumstances and costs of an emergency nature. These particular estimates address those unforeseen issues during the budget-making process at the beginning of this year. Of great importance is the allocation of Kshs23 billion for free day secondary education. This is very important especially for poor families. Many school-going children in secondary schools remain at home because of the economic problems that we are witnessing in this country presently. Parents are unable to pay school fees. So, this money has come at the right time for these poor children. Although we used to say primary education is basic, secondary education is a human right issue and we need to support it. That is why the Supplementary Budget has allocated this money to Free Secondary Education Programme. During the last Parliament, most of us, including Samburu North Constituency, constructed secondary schools through NG-CDF and they needed a lot of support. I constructed five day-secondary schools. This is the cheapest education system poor parents can get. At the end of the day, parents only pay about Kshs10, 000 per year. Those who cannot afford to take their children to boarding schools, then this is the right time to do so. The Government together with this Committee has done a nice thing. This is a wise policy and we need to support it as Members of Parliament. From January many of them will go to school and will not pay. For Jubilee Manifesto, this is a step in the right direction. When we were campaigning in our respective areas, this is one of the things that we had put in place and we had told our people as much. That is one reason they re-elected us to this House. We are fulfilling a pledge that we made during our campaign time. We need to support this particular initiative so that it can go through. Secondly, the allocation of Kshs12 billion to the IEBC was a request. A member had risen earlier on to claim that we are giving IEBC money when they do not need it. This request was made specifically by the IEBC. Either way we have to do election in this country. We are a democratic country. The elections were done on 8th August; the presidential election was nullified; and we have to do this election again. We must put it behind our back so that we can move on. We came here to work so that we can deliver to our people, but because of the Supreme Court we have been taken back. So the election has to be done. And this money is specifically meant for the repeat election. So we need to give IEBC the Kshs12 billion for them 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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