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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Our very Constitution supports and endorses the principle of universal education. However, it is universal education and not universal primary, secondary school and university. I rise to oppose this Motion. I am not saying that those who do not perform well stop after Standard VIII. There should be a safety net to pick up those children. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you start Standard I at six or seven years, by the time you finish Standard Eight, you will be about 15 years old. You are now on the threshold of adulthood and you must have a good capacity to read, write and be able to communicate in both English and Kiswahili. Thereafter, what I propose is a safety net to pick up those children who have not been able to get good results to join secondary schools. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is nothing worse than to guarantee a child all the way up to Form IV and he reaches Form IV, having spent 15 years of his life in education, you tell him that there is no job. All the children will get to Form IV and, unless you are saying that there should no Form IV exams - which will be a tragedy - they are either going to fail miserably or there will be too many children who will go through the formal education system and not go any further. As a result, they will be frustrated and angry. They will be walking on the tarmac. They will be good fodder for extreme organizations. The countries that my good friend, Bishop Wanjiru, has mentioned, actually do exactly what we are saying. They go along up to the age of 16 years--- I am proposing that we go up to the age of 18 years. If you do not get the prerequisite requirement, you go into a parallel system, within the same secondary school, perhaps, for another two years, which will then prepare you for technical training."
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