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"speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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"content": "well structured in terms of implementation. We are already in it and now need to look at how we can improve it. This draws me to the dream of Hon. Mwai Kibaki, the former President of this country. May his soul rest in peace. When he brought in Free Primary Education (FPE), his mind was to ensure that every single child had a chance in education, especially basic education. After that, the sequential governments that have come in have not been able to improve on it and put resources so that the FPE that Hon. Mwai Kibaki brought in could be the one that he dreamt about. There was a saying when we had a lot of problems in this country some time back that the children that were in the streets were the first products of the FPE of Mwai Kibaki. Now that we have the CBC, we need to have a serious interrogation of the Ministry. The officials need to be called here to explain how to handle the infrastructure that is needed urgently before January next year, in Grade 9. We need to hear whether they are ready not only in a few parts of this country, but everywhere in the country where this programme is ongoing. It is obvious that even teachers are not well prepared. I would like to hear from the Cabinet Secretary and the Ministry how it is going to do serious teacher training and ensure that teachers are prepared to handle Grade 9 students. While we are releasing pressure in secondary schools because of the classes that are going to be empty, we are burdening primary schools to a level where they will not be able to work. We need to come together as NG-CDF and the Ministry to urgently put resources so that we can evade a serious crisis of having children who do not have teachers and classrooms. I would also like the formation of a committee to check on the sustainability of our education model. In my opinion and without doubt, there is a problem with the sustainability and the expense required to continue with this project of CBC. There is also an important role that is supposed to be played by a committee to ensure that no area in this country is left behind. We need to do an assessment and an audit to know whether we are able, as a country, to make the changes we are making in education. Our public universities do very well. Many of our children, even of senior government officials, go to public universities."
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