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    "id": 1265613,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1265613/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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    "content": "posted was not going to teach all 14 subjects, including chemistry, physical sciences, arts, language and others. Kenya has the best trained teachers. Our system of education is one of the best in Africa and internationally. That is why the students we send to undertake undergraduate and postgraduate studies outside Kenya are usually rated the best, and they do not drop out of school. This is unlike other African countries where they send their students to universities abroad; they are subjected to other exams to determine whether they qualify to proceed with their studies. Fortunately, in Kenya, we have the best. As much as our colleague is talking about developing a policy for junior secondary schools, many issues need to be streamlined so that the curriculum implementation is very clear. On funding, the education sector is getting the bulk of the money from the Budget we just passed. I hope that the money that is going to the education sector is correctly utilized. It should be equally distributed. In my constituency, the capitation for junior secondary schools has been disbursed. Still, you will find that some schools have not received funding. For example, G.K. Magereza Primary School has not received any money and yet, students are in school. How do we get equity in education if money is released piecemeal? Some schools receive funds first and others later. That is how equity is lost from the beginning, and certain areas become marginalized. We usually say that education is an equalizer. If that is the case, there should be equity from the beginning. I wish that the money that the Ministry usually uses to develop infrastructure in schools can be reallocated to the National Government Constituencies Development Fund, where implementation will be fairly done. That is where equity will be felt. If the Ministry is left to allocate the money in terms of who makes the most noise or who is a friend of who, it will become problematic. I wish that we could reallocate that money to the NG-CDF. Proper development will then be felt like what the NG-CDF has done in our schools. If you go to every school, you will see a classroom, a building and a dormitory constructed with funds provided by the NG-CDF. That shows that it is a success story. Why can we not follow the same process and allocate more money to the NG-CDF so that school infrastructure can develop? That way, we will not have issues of inequality. Another issue is the hierarchy of schools. We have extra-county, county and national schools. We should do away with that hierarchy and just have Kenyan schools, whether they are in Mandera or elsewhere. We should have uniformity so that whether we talk about Alliance High School or Kapkei School in Moiben, there is no difference, and our children will feel equal. When a child puts on the school uniform of Alliance or Moiben, it is the same. We can even have similar uniforms, just like the yellow buses. All our uniforms should be the same. The only difference among students should be their admission and index numbers. That is how we will achieve uniformity. We should support this education system by allocating more resources and identifying where things are not working. Otherwise, destroying it or saying it will not be a success is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We should streamline it and make it a success story. We cannot have time when we are ready to change the curriculum. It has to be done systematically. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. My time is up."
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