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    "id": 1214838,
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    "speaker_name": "Chepalungu, CCM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Victor Koech",
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    "content": " Thank you, very much Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute on this particular Motion. At the outset, I thank Hon. Kaluma for this particular Motion that will help us deliberate on what is currently happening in the education sector in our country. The CBC is good but its timing of implementation is wrong because currently as a country we are suffering from a bad economic situation that is greatly affecting the construction of schools that the Government had promised. As we talk, there is a taskforce which was tasked to come up with recommendations that would make implementation of CBC better and simpler. The taskforce recommended that CBC, which is now at class seven, should be domiciled in each and every primary school. Lately, primary schools were to seek approvals for domiciling JSS. In my constituency, I have 187 primary schools and those that were approved to offer CBC classes were 113. This only meant that children who are barely 12 years have to travel over 5 kilometres. In a day they travel almost 10 kilometres simply to look for education. Bearing in mind that my constituency has many challenges not limited to lack of food, imagine a 12-year-old learner travelling almost 5 kilometres without taking tea in the morning and expect the same learner to sit through the lessons of the day. We are looking at a situation where a learner is supposed to learn up to 12 lessons as opposed to the initial six examinable subjects. Now they are supposed to learn almost 12 subjects. This is a challenge because of lack of sufficient teachers. The teachers are few. The same teachers, not trained on the CBC, are facing many challenges that are not just limited to lack of offices. Imagine a high school teacher or a secondary school teacher trained in two subjects. A primary school teacher is now heading him or her. There are going to be many conflicts. For these reasons, we as a country, have to make a decision. First is to halt the CBC and wait until we are ready to implement the same. Speakers have spoken about the same. I have looked into this CBC and realised it is a copy or cut and paste document or programme from Malaysia and Romania. It is meant for a developed country, not a country like Kenya where infrastructure is still underdeveloped. For this reason, we as a country, and as a House have to re-look into this programme. I know it is possible, save for the fact that we normally pass Motions in this House but implementation is slow. The same ought to be done because we cannot be a House that recommends what the government is not ready to implement. I make my submissions, and support the Motion. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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