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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Thank you Senator. Madam Temporary Speaker, I believe it will be very difficult to divide those functions; functions of infrastructure, the need for schools to give quality education and the functions of hiring. All those go together. It is the planning that matters. Unless the planning is done centrally, I do not see how you will deliver the functions. Personally, I hesitate to support the Motion. In the Tenth Parliament I had an opportunity to be invited to the Harvard School of Business of Government among other people who had been invited from all over the world for a course of two weeks in governance. The Professor who was teaching us told us that devolving education had been tried in Brazil but they were now going back to where they were because it did not work. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I attended a meeting on health matters during the World Health Organization (WHO) Assembly in Geneva, the same thing was cautioned by the Global Fund. I believe it was by one of our donors. They cautioned us about devolving education and they quoted Brazil because somehow, there is a very strong connection between education and health. I urge you Senators, my colleagues, especially those who are representing certain counties to rethink whether this is the time to devolve education in whichever form. Education matters should not have any interruptions. Devolving issues of education also came up at the Bomas of Kenya and a majority of the delegates decided that we would rather devolve health but leave education intact. We have a Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) meeting which I will be attending, coming up in five minutes but I am glad that I got an opportunity to air my feelings on this. I would have liked to go further than this. However, I would like to urge you, hon. Senators to consider all areas before you devolve any part of education."
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