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    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wachira Kabinga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. As I do so, I take note that this Motion is simply bringing this House into compliance with the Constitution. I also want to thank partners who came together to develop the current school feeding programme that links the feeding programme to the local small-scale farmers. I want to agree with the Member who has just talked. Sometimes, we create more disparity by focusing on some of the historically marginalised areas. I appreciate that some of those areas require much more attention. But even as we do so, we should not forget that some of the other parts of this country also require those services and facilities. The school feeding programme in my time was referred to as sukro . I do not know what that meant at that time. It kept us in school, especially in areas that are vulnerable. I have my constituency in mind, where we grow rice and there is an attempt to have child labour. By having a school feeding programme, children are maintained in school. As it is now, a number of schools are reporting high rates of absenteeism simply because children get into farms in their attempt to get food. Nutrition is vital for our children. It enhances their cognitive abilities. You realise that in most of the areas where we come from, especially in settlement areas like Mwea where farmers do not have any crop to farm other than rice, when they get back to the settlement schemes, they have no space to grow anything that can add to nutrition. Therefore, having nutrition supplements in schools would add a lot to those children. Therefore, it is important that even as the Government focuses on the ASAL areas, it should also come up with programmes that will enhance school-feeding programmes in the rest of the counties. It is possible for the Government to be innovative in its support for this programme."
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