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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Leah Sankaire",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to make my contribution to this important Motion before the House by Hon. Kaluma. I think a proper survey was not done before the introduction and implementation of the CBC and that is why we have inadequate learning and teaching materials, making it the burden of parents to provide for the same. If proper planning and survey was done, the issues that we are discussing here today would have been done at the initial phase of planning. This was necessary so that when we come to the implementation part of the system, we would have put these things in order. Therefore, in my view, proper survey was not done and even if it was done, it was not in all parts of the country. It is important to note that when we sometimes rise to oppose debate in the House, it is not that we are against the Government. We just want to give honest opinions about where we come from because one of our roles is to represent the people. Where I come from, the CBC is a curriculum of the rich. This is because every single day, parents are burdened to buy materials that children will use in school the following day. It is actually hard since we are already going through very hard economic times. It is already hard for parents to put food on the table and they are again burdened with the cost of the CBC where they have to come up with materials to support learning each and every day. I have heard people say that some parents are lazy and that is why they oppose the CBC because they do not want to do homework with their children. I think that is a wrong notion. Where I come from, a good number of parents are either illiterate or semi-illiterate. We have children who are sent home to be helped by their parents to do their homework yet the parents cannot read or write. This poses a big challenge for the learners, causing confusion to parents who are supposed to help their children but cannot read or write. It is, therefore, not a matter of parents being too lazy to help their children. It is a matter of parents having the burden to 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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