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    "id": 1214873,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdul Haro",
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    "content": "transition, which is a teething problem. Those challenges can be dealt with in two ways. First, administratively. For instance, the question of school uniform. The fact that junior secondary school is domiciled within the primary school where children were learning is enough to make us agree that there is no need for new uniforms for them. They can continue with the uniform that they had in Grade Six. Many other issues can be dealt with administratively. For instance, we can agree that those schools that have been earmarked as feeder schools can still continue being CBC centres. Those are issues that we can deal with as a country. Such issues cannot make us run away from a system that is already nine years old. Other issues which constitute the elephant in the room can be dealt with resource-wise. This is because we need a lot of resources and that is why we have a lot of challenges. First, we need 30,000 classrooms for the CBC but the Government has only constructed 10,000 classrooms. We can agree to appropriate more resources so that we can have more classrooms to accommodate CBC to sort out that challenge. Secondly, we have recruited 36,000 teachers to teach CBC pupils when we require 103,000 teachers. We can appropriate more resources for more teachers to be recruited so that we can deal with that challenge. We require 30,000 laboratories and it is clear that one requires resources. These are not matters that should make us run away from a system that is already nine years old. A lot of resources have already gone into the CBC. I know the system might appear like it has been rushed but it is because of the transition where we are moving from Grade Six to Grade Seven. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I will end at this point and state that I fully support the CBC system. As the 13th Parliament, we have a historic opportunity to allocate more resources to the CBC system, so that this personalised system of learning as opposed to the 8-4-4 System of Education is not killed at this stage. Thank you."
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