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    "id": 1185995,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "we needed it in the Constitution so that that policy could be corrected and a sunset close was put. I can comfortably tell you that there are places in Mandera County today, that are richer than some places in Kakamega County. However, because the people of Kakamega County were not treated badly through bad policy – like the people of Mandera at that time – we would not mind if it is righted for a short period of 20 years. For your information, due to this haggling, already 12 years of the 20 are over. We are remaining with a mere eight years. Members, I request that we all move behind my Chairman’s Bill. If we do that, this money can arrive to the food tables of these families and the villages for development. It will be used in houses and villages and their offspring will benefit too. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the same breath, we should also encourage the Chairman to lead us in the manner he has led us, to ensure that again, the Equalization Fund is fast-tracked. It is now holding Kshs15.88 billion which is just lying there and can be due for development. Development touches our people especially when it goes to education of their children. In matters of hunger, our villagers will struggle and keep quiet. However, when it comes to education, they cannot take it because they have discovered that education is a social equalizer. They would not sit back knowing a child in Vihiga County, has a better chance of doing well in school than one, shall I say in Tana River County? Therefore, I appeal to Members of this Senate and the National Assembly and Members of County Assembly (MCAs), that we should all unite and defend the education of the children of Kenya, whether from rich or poor families. This new policy of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) that is attempting to replace knowledge-based curriculum, will create a class. It is because the requirement for CBC is such that the ordinary woman in Shinyalu, Luakhakha and in a village in Tana River County, cannot afford. We should fight CBC so that if somebody thinks it is good, they should start by declaring that they are going to make access to CBC free of charge. For as long as parents are involved, nobody can afford. For as long as we continue asking parents to do homework for their children, it cannot succeed because some of the parents are actually illiterate. How will they do homework for their children? It is a bad policy, it is defeatist, divisive and it must fall. We must fight it and win for the sake of the poor. I second."
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