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    "id": 1265531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Duncan Mathenge",
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    "content": "We know that CBC started literally seven years ago. When it was time for JSS students to join, we started running around helter-skelter. It is not like we did not know that this date was coming. Even with the patchwork that allowed us to commence JSS in the primary schools, we have gone back to sit on our laurels. We do not know what will happen by the time the next two years are over and yet it will be time for our kids to join senior secondary school. More importantly, nobody in this country, including the mandarins at the Ministry of Education, can give a clear and coherent roadmap on exactly what we are doing in JSS. It is important that we do not fail our children. We have been speaking of a lost generation that has disappeared into alcohol and drug abuse. We are preparing, at this pace, another lost generation that is pursuing JSS, unless we put our act together. Despite the hardships that are there, a lot of JSS children do not attend school consistently. The JSS came with a new set of uniforms and new requirements for desks, chairs and books that parents had not been prepared for. Therefore, it is important that this Motion is taken very seriously by this House and the ministry in terms of restoring order in our education system. The current grading system at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) is producing a wasted number of young people in this country. When we analyse the KCSE performance, we find that barely 20 per cent of our Form Four students attain the minimum university entrance grade. Another 28 per cent attain the diploma colleges admission grade. Therefore, we have about 50 per cent of our school leavers competing for certificate and craft courses. The tragedy of this country is that we find that even a voluntary service like the National Youth Service (NYS) requires our graduates to have attained a D plain in Form Four. What are we, as legislators and leaders, telling our young people in this country, in terms of the plans we have for their future? We have a crop of very many young girls and boys who are literally present in every shopping centre in this country. They say that they have nothing to do, except indulge in consuming cheap liquor or alcohol which we, as leaders in the country, 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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