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    "id": 421621,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I do not know whether anyone congratulated you for being our Speaker this afternoon. In case it was not done, please, accept my congratulations. You are doing very well. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank and congratulate my brother, Sen. Wako, for this timely Motion. If there is anything good that has ever happened to this Republic, it is the new Constitution that embraced devolution. As you know, this was attempted before after Independence, but those who did not mean well for this country abolished devolution. We would be very far if the devolution that was envisaged after Independence was allowed to continue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Motion today calls for education and I want to start from where Mwalimu Karaba left. Yes, we are going to educate the population as it is today – and I will speak about that in a while – but I think that the most important part of education will be to gauge our curricula and ensure that education on the new Constitution and devolution is impacted on the young ones. I will be very sad to hear that as of now, the Ministry of Education has not moved to change the education syllabuses and content of subjects, to ensure that we embrace devolution as our new way of Government. It is true that many people in this country do not know what the new Constitution and devolution are all about. We have heard very irresponsible statements being made even by elected leaders; that we will abolish the Senate, reduce the number of counties or amalgamate Machakos, Kitui and Makueni to be one. It just goes to show that we lack this education. 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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