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    "id": 1021643,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "I support this Bill so that we can control and increase our earnings in terms of medical tourism. I implore upon Hon. Mishra to go further and find out where the rain started beating us, as a country. I believe that the rain started beating us in the late 1990s through to 2000. When I was the President of the Students Organization of Nairobi University, there was the introduction of parallel degree programmes, which was commercialization of education. Through those programmes, we equated knowledge with money. The introduction of the parallel degree programmes brought about a situation where grade “A” without money became grade “C” and grade “C” with money became grade “A”. That is because you could train in any field as long as you have money. We ended up having academic failures training in very important professions like medicine simply because they had money, but not the knowledge. For you to afford Kshs600,000 per year, translating to almost Kshs5 million by the time you complete a course in medicine, it means you are a millionaire and you accessed very good secondary education but you still failed. Some children who studied under trees in day secondary schools are from very poor backgrounds, but they still managed to pass with good grades like “B” and “A– (Minus). That means those children are very knowledgeable, but because they did not have money to train as doctors, they were left out due to the commercialization of education. So, I implore upon Hon. (Dr.) Mishra to go and look at that situation because I was there and I opposed parallel degree programmes and the commercialization of education, until I was suspended from the University of Nairobi. Hon. Maanzo was my lawyer. He was not able to succeed in bringing me back. I was only brought back by a Government amnesty through the regime of Hon. Mwai Kibaki. What I am saying is that we should broaden and even bring the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) into play. That is so that we can train our doctors well. That is how a country can have confidence in us. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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