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    "id": 816706,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/816706/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "So, colleagues, we need to ask the Ministry of Education to sit down and look at the whole sector. We should not only reform the curriculum, but we should also reform the way schools are managed. We should also have a training programme for every principal who is going to manage a secondary school. They must have a certificate that allows them to manage not only a secondary school, but also a boarding school. That way, we will cut off these problems. Many countries have gone through this phase of life we are experiencing as a country. We have boarding schools in Europe and in all parts of the world. Why are they not experiencing the problems we are facing in Kenya? Is this just a Kenyan problem or is it a problem that every developing country faces in its education system? These are things that education history scholars will be able to give us information on, especially how to run our secondary schools. We have many sociologists in the country who can help us solve problems in our education system, but in Kenya, we do not want to use the professionals that we have. The people we have trained in management of schools, we do not want to use them in the management of the system. All we do is put people in management positions because they are our friends, relatives and because something has happened for somebody to be appointed. If you interview the people who manage our schools currently, you will realise that they do not even qualify to manage those schools."
}