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    "id": 1157121,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1157121/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "make sure that the children of Kenya go through their education years and process in a manner they can afford. And for us to come and tell to our children and their parents that there is free secondary in Kenya, that is a lie. In practice, they have to pay more than Kshs10, 000 per annum in day schools. We also need to regularise all institutions like the children’s homes and all charitable institutions that deal with children. Some could be predatory, but we need to have a body that regulates and looks into activities of charitable institutions that deal with children in this country. As I wind up, as a country, it is good to be aware that the education system the children we raise up go through prepares them to be the labour force that our nation will depend on. We need to look at an education system that absorbs everyone. Absorption from primary to secondary school must be 100 per cent. That is why I was referencing that for us to have the 100 per cent transition, education has to be free. We also need to look at what we teach in primary and secondary schools. We currently have the CBC programme, which has turned out to be very expensive for our parents. We also need to look at how the Government can shoulder the burden on Kenyan parents, especially in the CBC regime, which to some is unaffordable. We also need to be forthright on STEM because the world economy currently relies more on changing dynamics in technology. That cannot be done at the tertiary level. It has to start from lower levels for us to have greater emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The rate at which the global economy is evolving and the direction it is headed will need much more of STEM that is conceptualised from lower levels and from earlier years of children so that they are prepared well for the new dispensation of the global economy. With those remarks, I support."
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