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    "id": 830743,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/830743/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gertrude Mwanyanje",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13245,
        "legal_name": "Gertrude Mbeyu Mwanyanje",
        "slug": "gertrude-mbeyu-mwanyanje"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion on the establishment of policy guidelines on land for expansion of public schools and a fund for the acquisition of the same. It is important this Motion has come at this time. Our public schools are overpopulated. Within them, we have the Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) centres, primary and secondary school sections. As much as we urge the Government to establish a fund to acquire land, most of the land is already overpopulated and people have grabbled land neighbouring the schools. As much as we want to acquire public land, it may not be there. I urge this House to establish a policy that our schools make use of the air space within them and the ground under. They can do storey structures for boarding facilities and classes, so that we leave the little ground remaining in these schools to be the playgrounds. As a teacher, I know that most EDCE children need a lot of land to play on in order to develop them physically. So, it is my wish that we use the air space to do storey buildings for our schools. The underground can also be used for expansion of classes and boarding facilities and leave the remaining little land as playgrounds for the schools. Thank you."
}