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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this Motion. Education is the key to everything all over the world. I want to thank the Member who has brought this very important Motion. I rise to support it. Talking of the Competency-Based Curriculum, I think our Constitution has a lapse. Our education sector has not been anchored very well in the Constitution. Every Cabinet Secretary who is appointed, especially in Ministry of Education, wants to make decisions as they feel. Right from the late President Daniel arap Moi’s time, there have been many changes on the education curricular and this has affected our children and parents. We say that primary education is free, but CBC has made it very expensive. You can say that there is no free primary education in Kenya. This is all happening just because the Principal Secretary visited another country, copied the CBC and he wants to make it work in Kenya. Well, it is working but not very well. That is why every Member has his own negative thoughts on CBC. In the rural constituencies where some of us come from, there are no teachers. Indeed, if they wanted good change, we could not have come up with JSS and have it domiciled in primary schools with only one teacher and 80 students. It means the Ministry and TSC were not ready to post teachers to teach the new class that was promoted from primary. The Government must do something to remove school fees. Parents are paying a lot of money, especially for practical classes. Teachers send children home to take chicken to school to slaughter for practical classes. If a class has 100 children, it means 100 chicken for slaughter to make teachers feel good and enjoy eating chicken from parents. I want Members to dig in properly about this CBC and see if it is helping the education sector."
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