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    "id": 1214843,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "CBC is a failure in this country is misinformation. It is wrong and it should not continue. The CBC has succeeded. Now we are facing a challenge before us. How do we transit from primary school to junior secondary school? That is the hitch. That hitch is something that will be there for a year. In the next year, 2024, we will have gone to JSS 2. I think this country is able to overcome this. When 8-4-4 started, it started on the same footing. When I was studying curriculum development and implementation of curricula in this country at the Kenyatta University during my days, we used to say 8-4-4 has failed. Today, people are sitting in this Parliament and saying 8-4-4 succeeded. It did not start on a rosy ground. It started first on a very shaky ground. However, eventually, we as a country moved forward, put in the best pillars, put in the best foundation and 8-4-4 succeeded. It is the same to CBC. It will succeed but it will require us as leaders to say we have a duty of care to the young people, put our brains and resources to it, and ensure that CBC succeeds. To stand here to say that CBC is a failure… We cannot sit here and predict, for example, that our President fail or that our country will fail. No responsible leader can pray for his country to fail. As a country, we need to move forward by looking at the challenges that we face. What we are having now at Junior Secondary Schools are challenges. The first challenge is on human resource, that is, teachers. How are we going to galvanise, as a House, and support the Teachers Service Commission to ensure that we have teachers? This is a budget-making House. We need to state how much money is needed for teachers and fight to ensure that there is enough money for hiring them. How much resources do we need to push JSS forward in terms of desks, human resource and equipment? I need to do this so that when I sit back, I can say that CBC looked like it will fail but because I stood up as a teacher, it succeeded. That is how this country was built through a spirit of resilience even when the odds were against us. That is how you build a strong nation. So, this is a challenge that we need to face. I cannot stand here and say that the JSS has failed. The people of Kilifi North will say that our Member of Parliament has said that the JSS has failed yet tomorrow a child will wake up to go to join the JSS. What would I have told that child? What would I have told a teacher? The child and the teacher require our motivation and us to rally behind this Government to ensure that CBC succeeds. Kenya will gain international repute. When your children will go out there to seek employment in other countries, they will be respected because we will have built a resilient education system. So, there are challenges and as a country we need to face these challenges together and not as one coalition or the other. It is about this country Kenya. It must move forward and make sure that CBC succeeds. As a professional teacher, I also want to give my input so that JSS succeeds with my experience as a teacher. Thank you."
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