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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mogaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me a chance to support this Motion of Adjournment on a Matter of Urgent National Importance by my senior, Hon. Robert Mbui. Indeed, education touches every home in this Republic. As elected Members, we know better that every home that contributed the votes that brought us to Parliament deserves better when it comes to education matters. It is true that this CBC education system is now under implementation. I do not know when the conceivers, architects and implementers of this system got their foot off the pedal for us, as Parliament, to start interrogating our preparedness to transit the Grade 9 and Grade 6 pupils. Truth be told, we face a situation where we have an infrastructural crisis in the lower basic learning institution, while there are idle classes or excess capacity, as we call it in economics, in the secondary section. How can this country justify having idle classes in every secondary school in this Republic, when there is congestion crisis in the lower learning institutions? How soon have we forgotten what COVID-19 can do when we congest our children in a place where clearly, we know there is no infrastructure? As my colleagues said earlier, this House should not compromise education matters. We are the people who appropriate resources. If there are not enough resources for education, then this House has no business sitting when the parents of those poor children do not know where their children will go to in January. Arising out of this Adjournment Motion, Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Cabinet Secretary of Education, and thank God he is a new sheriff in town, should be summoned to this House, together with the Principal Secretaries, to reassure this House and the Republic of Kenya that we are on course to have our children learn and transit to the next level of learning without interruption, delay, and congestion. Indeed, as a Member of Parliament for West Mugirango Constituency, I have done my part to build and improve, through our NG-CDF committees, new infrastructure to support education in my constituency and, of course, in the Republic of Kenya. But clearly, that will not be enough next year when the children are transiting to the next level. It is, therefore, important that this House commands the NG-CDF Board to ensure that every money that is 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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