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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Sen. Cherarkey has brought about Statements that are very pertinent, for this country to move forward. I think it is very serious that the Government of the day is not taking its children seriously. Many people have spoken about the issue of infrastructural challenges that are facing the roll out of Junior Secondary Schools (JSS). However, the highest form of challenge that we are faced with today is the issue of access and school fees. I have had the privilege of becoming an elected Member. I think that I speak for many of us here. If you go home to your respective constituencies today, one of the biggest problems that every elected Member here faces are parents that come to them with issues of school fees. The Government cannot think about rolling out something like JSS and not think about the access points, particularly, the issue of our children’s school fees. Secondly, I know my brother, who is a senior ranking Member, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, has spoken about the issue of developing knowledge before competence. I think the issue goes even further than that. The Government of the day, I can assure you, is confused about why we as a people, are having an education system. Education system should be a system that focuses on productions that a country faces. The Government must first articulate itself on the development path that the country is taking, so that you do have a population that responds to that which you produce or the economy is based on. We even see reviews of JSS programmes. Young people are still exposed. What happens in Class 6 is even worse than what used to happen in Class 8. Six years after education, you are being forced to start memorizing Science, Mathematics, English and Kiswahili because the Government is not deliberate about where this country needs to go, in terms of its production."
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