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    "id": 953510,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/953510/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1885,
        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
        "slug": "didmus-wekesa-barasa-mutua"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this Sessional Paper. If there is any important sector of Government, then it is education. I also support this Sessional Paper because one of the state departments that has also been infested by cartels is the education sector. There are so many problems that ail the education sub-sector. While appreciating that the Government has put in too much money into this very important sector, I also want to decry that we have some misfiring especially in the manner in which these infrastructural development funds are issued. We have some schools that are completely dilapidated and they need this amount of money but they never get it. I know that the Government rolled out free secondary school education especially in day schools, but we have some principals who have been chasing away students to look for money for lunch. As far as I am concerned, a child who has not paid lunch fees should only be denied a chance to enter the dining hall, but he should not be denied an opportunity to go and sit in the class. This is because the Government will have already paid money for this aspect. I also want to bring to the attention of the House that we have some rogue officers at the Ministry of Education who are actually colluding with businesspeople. Today you will see schools everywhere being initiated even without structures. When you begin a school that is not registered and you put children of this country to learn under a tree or structures that are completely dilapidated, you will be standing on the path of education of children because they will never get quality education. This is something which the Ministry of Education should move with speed around this country to correct. Today, the Government of Kenya has tried to make education not very expensive, but we have some principals who develop very expensive bills of quantities and come up with"
}