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    "speaker_name": "Baringo County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jematiah Sergon",
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    "content": " Thank you. Most Members who have spoken before me have clearly made very good points. I will not belabour much. Sub-county education offices will enable and correct most of the injustices happening within the education sector since devolution came. We have realised that education has suffered many mismanagement problems. The proposed new board that Hon. Wamaua has tried to put up in a very basic way will help. Reports from every sub-county will be well managed within the sub-counties without going all the way to county levels and back. Sub-counties are the liaison. They can be empowered to make decisions through this Bill because they interact with teachers and schools almost daily. Delays in decision-making rank highly as challenges. As you know in education, children spend nearly the entire year in school. Most likely, the impact on results and quality of education will be negative when decisions are not made on time. Unlimited oversight capacity is another thing sub-county boards will tackle if empowered. That will give us good results, quality education, quality life, and good examination management in the country. I propose that in the future, we could have schools managed properly by having a small number of schools within our constituencies instead of many schools being built all over the place. As a county Member of Parliament, I see that schools in a ward, for instance, have almost 10 to 15 schools in almost the same perimeter. This also contributes to mismanagement because of the inability to do proper management. When you have many schools, you have to spread the resources so thin that officers will not have enough time to do proper reports. When you have these schools that are not properly managed, the quality of education becomes so bad. You cannot compare the quality of education and teachers during our 8-4-4 days to public schools in the villages today. The quality of teachers we have today depends so much on how the schools are run. This is because we are focusing on the quantity instead of the quality. I suggest that as we cure this proposed Bill about the sub-county board, we should describe and elaborate on what a school is. We should have a few schools in our sub-counties, describe the amenities a school should have, and categorise them into either day or boarding schools, primary or secondary schools. This will enable the management to have schools built to last even as we create and enable this sub-county board to be in place. 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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