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    "id": 1342212,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you. It is true. I agree, but I also want to know why the Ministry of Education developed these regulations. Because there is a lacuna somewhere, and we need to fill certain gaps. When they do it wrongly, and the Ministries continue to do it wrongly, it beholds us, as Parliament and Chairpersons of Departments, to also sit with the Executive and tell them what needs to be done. Many times, when we have these annulments, it is because of issues of procedure. Procedure that would have been corrected even before this matter came to this House for annulment. I urge Chairpersons of Departmental Committees to understand that some Cabinet Secretaries are new and greenhorns. They may not understand a lot of things. At the same time, technocrats in the Ministries may not properly advise them. The Cabinet Secretary for Education was a Member of this honourable House. He is a fine gentleman. I do not think he would fail to listen to Hon. Chepkonga if he called him aside and told him that the regulations have issues which we could help to thrash out so that they can be useful to the country. A lot of time has been spent on the process, only for us to annul the regulations. The education system will not get better because we have annulled the regulations. Issues in universities will not be solved because we have annulled the regulations. We will not bring solutions to issues that demand that subsidiary legislation be made because we have annulled the regulations. Those issues can only get better if we consult and look for solutions so that our young people in universities do not continue to suffer because a Cabinet Secretary did not follow procedure. I ask Hon. Chepkonga and his…"
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