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"speaker_name": "Uriri, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Nyamita",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to reject this appointment. My reason for the same is very simple. Within the Ministry of Education, we have the Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD) which is a fully fledged institution that deals with curriculum development of both primary and secondary schools in this country. You might want to know that the current PS for Basic Education came from the KICD. He is already skilled and together with that institute, I am sure issues to do with curriculum development can be handled ably at that particular point. In any case, the PS is not to work on this State Department alone, but with the technocrats within the Ministry. What we are asking is that the President should consider reorganising the Ministry of Education. Today, if you go to the Ministry of Education, sometimes even when we are following up on matters that affect us in our different schools, you will be tossed back and forth because the departments are too many that sometimes they do not even know who is in charge of what. In as much as we are encouraging the Government to continue creating employment, the Constitution puts a limit on the number of cabinet secretaries that we are supposed to have. The ordinary thing that should happen is that a Cabinet Secretary should be given people to help them in the name of PSs. They can just be one or two, but we cannot have six people under one Cabinet Secretary. So, I want to urge my colleagues that this appointment is misplaced and we need to reject it in totality. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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