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    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": "which they expect parents to pay through school fees. By doing that they are taking the gains that this country has attained in the education sub-sector back to the days when education was very expensive. We need to smoke out the officers of Government from Jogoo House who are sleeping on their jobs and who are not monitoring to ensure that Government policies are implemented to the letter so that we can make education affordable. I also pass my condolences to the families of those who lost their young ones in the tragedy in a school in Ng’ando. Those children never deserved to die. I really blame the Ministry of Education because they have a responsibility of auditing, through their quality assurance department, to ensure that the children of this country are learning from structures that have met the engineering standards. One of the parents of the child Whitney Wekesa comes from my constituency. I really pray that God stands with that family and gives it strength. I challenge this Committee that going forward into the future, they should also focus on where the Ministry of Education is not doing very well. This is because when you want to assist a state department to improve, you focus on the areas where they are not doing very well so that we can assist the Government improve the learning institutions in this country and ensure that the children of this country get affordable education. Going forward, we really need to develop a mechanism and formulate a rationale on how… 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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