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    "id": 1525242,
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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": "The Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) is not working. Every Cabinet Secretary has introduced their own reforms, which have made the entire sector bureaucratic and bloated, with no head and tail and a lack of management. This sector requires critical dissection if we are to truly live up to the tenets and expectations of the education system we inherited from our forefathers. I may not agree with the three Cs: Christianity, Commerce and Civilisation, but in Northern Kenya, while other Kenyans were benefiting from the three Cs, the rights of the students, parents and teachers were trampled. The issue of the weaponisation of insecurity has been taken out of context. Over the last few years, the education sector in Northern Kenya has been in crisis, not because of the real situation on the ground, but due to perception issues between the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the education sector. I want to report here that, because of the actions we have taken as the leadership, in the next 20 years, Northern Kenya will have surplus teachers. I want you to hear this: we will no longer be at the mercy of the TSC or the Ministry of Education mandarins because we have put measures in place. I want to thank His Excellency President William Ruto for going out of his way and ensuring that the children of Northern Kenya and the pastoralist communities get their rights through teacher recruitment and other affirmative actions. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you know what we have done. Today, in my constituency alone, I have over 800 teachers who have been trained. In the next one or two years, we will have surplus teachers, and we will be asking them to go and serve in other parts of Kenya as part of their civic obligation. I want the TSC and the Ministry of Education to hear that no amount of frustration, bureaucratic activities, historical stereotypes or boardroom politics will deny us. We have reached where we wanted to reach. We have the health sector, which has stabilised. For the education sector, we are almost there. I want to commend the leadership of Northern Kenya. I want to commend…"
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