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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Alfah Miruka (",
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    "content": "Bomachoge Chache, UDA): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to go on record as one of Members who are supporting the CBC 100 per cent. In fact, we should be discussing how to increase the education budget to cater for the needs of the CBC. I am surprised that other Members are speaking against the CBC. There is no way you can start something without challenges. In this life, challenges make things happen in the right way. As Members, we should put the 13th Parliament in the books of history as the Parliament that made the CBC system of education very successful. My observation is that the system is so nice but it should be 30 per cent practical and 70 per cent theory. We should review the curriculum to make it practical oriented to ensure that pupils going through the CBC know what they are doing. You cannot compare the CBC with the 8-4-4 System of Education. I went through the 8-4-4 System of Education. In the 8-4-4 System of Education, you had to struggle by yourself. In fact, it is 100 per cent theory. We should support the CBC. I want to urge the Cabinet Secretary for Education and the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to develop a strategy on how we can make structures in every school to ensure that the CBC is a success. Hon. Temporary Speaker, recently the Government employed several teachers. Despite that, we still have classrooms which are overpopulated. Let us take one more financial year and focus on this issue. A country without an education system is dead. We should make sure that the 13th Parliament focuses on making sure that the CBC is a success. That will help our pupils and change the entire system in this country. In the previous Government, the NG-CDF was used to build classrooms and laboratories in secondary schools. Currently, the junior secondary schools are domiciled in primary schools. May I advise fellow Members to allocate some funds to every primary school within our constituencies every financial year for construction of laboratories and classrooms. If we do so for five years, we will boost such structure in every school and promote the CBC system. When you look around and see a Grade Three or Grade Four pupil trying to create a very good toy bus, you appreciate that that mind is creative. If we nurture these small minds, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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