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    "id": 382788,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker. Let me say from the onset that I oppose this Motion. I do not want to thank the Mover because we should ventilate on these issues. As a country, we need to be very careful as to what we devolve. Education is a national function. Why do I say so? I say that because education must be standardised. You cannot set examinations for the whole country unless education is standardised and the facilities are the same. I happen to have served in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology as an Assistant Minister in charge of basic education and there are certain areas I visited where the capacity to handle such functions did not exist. I know there are also some areas where even some national institutions lower the marks for entry. I am talking about schools like Alliance and such other schools like Mang’u and Maseno. They lower because of marginalization. Why do they lower the cut off marks? This is because unless they do that, there will be no children from those areas entering national schools. I believe by devolving education, we will have a more serious problem than we have today. What we should do is to try to bring education at par in all areas. There are some areas where we transfer teachers and before they complete a year, they want to move. You have to work very hard to keep them there. If this becomes a county function, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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