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    "id": 806838,
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    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Allow me to thank the Member of Parliament who brought this Motion. This is a very important Motion. In spite of our Constitution 2010 dealing with the questions of discrimination, we are still largely an unequal society and I want to agree with Member who said that education is one of those things that will act as an equaliser. In particular, the question of school feeding programme which will be able to keep our children in school. I also want to join the Member who has just spoken before me, who said that this ought to be applied equally across the nation so that our children are able to spend time in school rather than spend time walking long distances. I have an example in my constituency in Mathare, where many parents live on less than a dollar a day. If children were to spend about an hour in order to go back to their homes to get food, it would take a lot of time and affect their concentration in school. Universal health is one of the Big Four agenda of the Government today, and one of the questions we need to ask ourselves is how much has been dedicated in this Budget to school feeding programme. We have a budget of close to Kshs1.7 billion on Health. How much of this are we putting on the school feeding programme? I want to agree that if we have not placed any allocation in this particular Budget that we made, certainly, the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Implementation Committee should look at how this can be factored in. So, I want to laud the Member of Parliament who has brought this Motion and ask that this Motion should not die at being a Motion. It should go to the next step in which we will be able to ensure that our children are able to go to school. With those few remarks, I want to support and congratulate the Member of Parliament who has raised this Motion. Thank you."
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