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    "id": 1134124,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1134124/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "We have to change this. It is very sad that we are going the wrong way. I urge CS Prof. Magoha, a good friend of ours not to fall into this trap whereby everyone who becomes the CS of the Ministry of Education must appear to be reforming something. I asked them: You brought the 8-4-4 system, we accepted it, and it was working, why have we run away from it? Nobody is explaining to Kenyans. I thought when we wanted to move away from the 8-4-4 system, Kenya as the team leader in the East African Community was now going to move to primary education, Form One to Four, Form Five to Six, to university like Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are doing so that we synchronize our education system with the region. Now we have a mongrel that nobody understands. Even if you ask the CS to explain what is CBC he will fumble the same way I saw my good friend Alice Wahome fumbling when she was asked, what is this bottom-up economy you are talking about? She embarked on a misadventure that left her a laughing stock. She fumbled in her explanation until every Kenyan started laughing. If you ask Prof. Magoha what CBC is, he cannot tell you. Why did he bring it? This is because as a CS, he must be seen to be reforming something. This is not helping our country and this Senate must speak to this. We need to be predictable and synchronized with the region. We need to work with our partners. Kenya is a material source of labor and manpower to our neighbors. If you went through the 8-4-4 system of education and then you went to Tanzania, they accepted and employed you as a manager. Tomorrow somebody asks you: “What is your education system like?” You say CBC. “What is the CBC?”, “I don’t know, we are chasing tortoises to take to school and that is CBC”. These things must change. You Senators, protect devolution. I want to urge you to agree with this Report that there is no way the economy can grow by 9 per cent and the allocation to the counties remains static. You must reject this. I want my friend, the moran from Narok County, to reject this. If we have grown, then we must all grow. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I told the Chairperson of the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA) that she has been doing a good job but she is now suffering from"
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