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    "id": 806826,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacquiline Oduol",
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        "legal_name": "Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I know I am at the risk of losing one minute. I would like to confirm to Hon. Member that, not only was I here when the second bell was being rung, but I was actually here way before the bell rung. The world over, we are aware that education is an equaliser. We all know that when we seek to determine the future of our country and to ensure that we are committed to all those programmes that we have, we look at education. I, therefore, support this Motion. We also know that if we want to determine where a country is going, we just need to look at the children and much more importantly, we need to look at the programmes particularly the way we want to provide for education. When we consider the kinds of programmes that we already have, we will see that, by and large, we not only have programmes that deal with developing the intellect of the students, but we now increasingly have programmes that also seek to try and ensure that our children are protected. We would want to ensure that they are in an atmosphere where they are protected from anything that would affect their livelihood. We always ensure that we come up with lots of activities that relate to sports. By and large, we also want to see them doing well. To a larger extent, however, we will notice that we have all these programmes in a context of extreme poverty. There are situations where many children have even become heads of households. We are aware that, as a result of the HIV scourge and many other challenges, very many children are growing up in poverty. Many children are being brought up by their grandmothers, or by parents who are not able to meet their needs. Therefore, as I support this Motion, I would also like to urge that we ensure that in its implementation, we not only seek and confirm that it is a good programme and remember what happened in the past, but also ensure that the policy is backed with sufficient budgetary allocation for its implementation."
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