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    "id": 806905,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Mariru",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stanley Muiruri Muthama",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this chance to speak to this extremely important Motion. I thank the Mover, Hon. Vincent, for such a critical Motion. In Laikipia West, in the last six or so months, we have been doing an assessment of the level of education in Laikipia West and some of the challenges that we face as a constituency are particularly because the level of education has been regrettably very low. One of the issues that have come out very clearly is that, indeed, the issue of feeding programme in the constituency is a big issue. In Laikipia West, we have two sub-counties. Interestingly, one sub county benefits from the feeding programme and the other sub-county, which is in same constituency, does not benefit. In fact, we have a very peculiar situation where one school on one side of the road benefits from the feeding programme, but the next one on the other side of the same road does not benefit from the feeding programme. This is a big issue because there are children, pupils and students who cannot stay in school because they did not eat the previous day. They are meant to be in school studying, but they come from poor families and homesteads and are not able to concentrate in school. I met some of the teachers in some of the areas in my constituency and I got very sad stories of where pupils just collapsed in a parade. I went to one of the schools and I was told by the headmaster that they were in a parade and one of the kids just collapsed. After an assessment, it was found that the kid had not eaten the previous day and he was in school. This is an extremely important matter in this country. This is a Motion, but the Government should take the views and perspectives of the Members on this very seriously if we want to improve education in Kenya. We need to widen the perspective of this issue of the feeding programme. It is not just the national Government that should deal with this. We should have a framework where the national Government works with the county governments so that the feeding programme is extended. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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