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    "id": 806920,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. Before I do that, allow me an opportunity to mourn my neighbour, Senator Ben Oluoch, the Senator for Migori County. He was a member of my faith. We worshipped in the same church, the Seventh Day Adventists (SDA). Therefore, I know him as a man of integrity and virtue, who served this country in earnest. Death being what it is, has taken him way too early before he had an opportunity to serve his people in the Migori County. I mourn with the family. I am hurting with the family members. I know how painful this can be. May the good Lord rest his soul in eternal peace. On the Motion of expansion of the school feeding programme to all public primary schools, it would never have been said in any better way than to support it. We all know that the success of education is a function of many things. One such function of the success of education is food. When you are well-fed from an early age, it helps you to develop your mind and all the faculties of your body. That enhances your chances of success in education. Part of the challenges we have seen in some parts of this country is because people do not have good food and a balanced diet. Our children are denied an opportunity to develop their minds to full capacity. Most of our children go to private schools. In private schools, there is a feeding programme. The feeding programme is never about githeri and s ukuma wiki every other day. They are given a balanced diet. They are not doing it because they want to fill their stomachs. They are doing it because they want to ensure that those children have an opportunity to develop their minds and faculties so that they can understand what is being taught in school. Therefore, if the fact that food enables one to succeed in education is a scientific finding, we have a duty to ensure that function is shared by every Kenyan in this country. We have had challenges in the past where the Equalisation Fund model has been discriminative. You find that just because some areas qualify under some skewed system and formula of determining which areas are marginalised, they are given special treatment. You find that some school children are fed and just because the immediate neighbouring school happens to be in another constituency, it is not a beneficiary. Our children are too small and young to understand those marginalisation issues. They are too young to understand why children in one school are fed whereas children in the other school are not yet they have the same challenges. 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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