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    "id": 890249,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/890249/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to speak on this very important matter. Before this kind of programme is put in place, there must be a wide consultation. However, I would like to raise a few issues regarding parents in some areas who came together many years back, raised money through harambees and built excellent schools. However, these schools were converted into national schools by the Government. It is the parents who gave their own land and built the schools in their areas. There are schools like Ng’andu Girls and Tumutumu Girls in Nyeri. Instead of the school helping the local students, students are being admitted from all over the country. I ask the Chairman of the Committee to engage with the Ministry and establish the reasons why the Government decided to upgrade some of our local secondary schools that were built by parents to national schools instead of building new ones? These schools were supposed to benefit the local children. Secondly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, beside this transition of children to form one; there is something else that is very disastrous to the education system. The idea of transferring"
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