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    "id": 1510320,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1510320/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "by Chinua Achebe. In A Man of the People, there was a famous character called Mwalimu Chief Nanga. We do not want to bring a society that looks like that in the AMan of the People, that was being exposed by Chief Nanga. Other books that we read several times included the Ant Hills of Savannah, Aminata and Betrayal in the City . That, even as we struggle with the rollout of CBC, we must allow parents to rest easy. The Ministry of Education has given us a number of schools that were running boarding facilities in this country irregularly. While we sympathize and empathize with what happened in Hillside Endarasha Academy, in Nyeri County, we are aware there are a number of schools that are supposed to be closed because of being noncompliant in providing boarding facilities. We do not want the Ministry of Education to be proactive. On the contrary, we want the Ministry of Education to ensure that they are always ahead in time. How come these schools were operating yet the quality assurance of the Ministry of Education and the Department of Evaluation and Monitoring have been existing? It means our children and pupils have been in death traps. We only react after what happened in Hillside Endarasha Academy where a number of children died. We have a number of schools where boarding facilities are being threatened. On the issue of textbooks, there is corruption that is happening. When we were growing up, we used to have Kenya Literature Bureau. We now have Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). Why does the KICD not publish and supply textbooks to schools? Why do we have to outsource expensively for independent publishers to supply? That is why some of the books that were being supplied to our children in Grade 8 under CBC required Parental Guidance (PG) because they were exaggerated. That is why we have KICD publishing these textbooks. They can sanction and censor some of the things that our children in the lower grades should not learn. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you remember the United Nations (UN) uproar when Kiswahili textbooks and Mwalimu Sen. Wakoli of Bungoma will tell you this, had exaggerated explanations in Kiswahili. We ask the Ministry of Education to ensure that the KICD is the one writing, publishing, and supplying textbooks to all learners across the country. That is from Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE), primary, secondary and university. I know ECDE it is a devolved function. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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