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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "who come with grade ‘B’ doing well. In fact, some of us can tell this House that several years after Independence, it is the public schools that were doing well; they were the gold standard. In reality, it is private schools that should perform poorly. Public schools should be the gold standard but let us find the truth. However, should it come out that actually the feeling is that private schools should do better, then as a House and as leaders we would have let our people down because we should be more concerned when public schools where the children of poor people are the majority are not doing well. This is parallel to what I have also seen in the health sector. I worked in this country when we were transferring patients from private hospitals to public hospitals. I transferred patients from the Aga Khan Hospital to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). I admitted ministers to the KNH. It is now an accepted fact that those facilities are just for poor people. We must try, as leaders, to make sure that the gold standard is the public facilities, so that all people, whether they are poor or their parents are poor, will get the best services available. We cannot accept, even by implication that it is okay if public schools or public facilities are not doing well as long us private ones are doing well. That is the message that has actually irked me because it was the message that we were giving to the country and to the world with the way we were talking. However, let the Committee bring out the facts. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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