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    "id": 1525238,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "If the Member wants to cascade the County Education Board to another level, the best thing to do is to provide for a Constituency Sub-County Education Board. If left at the sub- county, it will be subjected to many definitional problems. Look at it in the next stage so you are clear on what you want because the administrative sub-counties mutate monthly and yearly. The numbers can be decided administratively, but the constituency issues are decided between 10 to 12 years. That must also be clear. The other bit is the educational qualification of the chairperson. It is very important that we clearly spell this out. In addition to having a degree as a requirement, specify the area of study, for instance, a degree in education. That clarity is also needed. Once upon a time, Kenya was voted as having the best human resource capital and recognised for the best education system that we inherited from the British. However, over the years, we have turned our education system into one that changes every day and every term at the whims of whoever is the Cabinet Secretary for Education. Whenever a new CS takes office, the first thing they do is say that they are engaging in reforms. These reforms have convoluted our education system, caused uncertainty and made it dysfunctional and unpredictable. It is high time we recognised that certainty and predictability are key components of education. In the past, we all emphasised the pecuniary gains of education. We went to school to receive part of the banking concept: you go to school, get employed and become a productive member of society. However, times have changed. Education is now an equaliser and a basic right under our Constitution, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the UN system. Therefore, what we lack as a country, and what this Bill attempts to address, is the further devolution of education management from the counties to the sub-counties. I plead with my good sister, who has brought this Bill, to look at it critically to avoid definitional contradictions that may be used by the usual litigants out there to challenge it. We need to find the most appropriate term between constituency or sub-county. I will propose constituency so as to have a 'Constituency Education Board', because that is more definite."
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