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    "id": 44743,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker Sir, I want to appreciate the very deep sentiments in the area of education. That is not the way it should be. Hon. Koech asked why we have pronouncements of policies left right and center. There will be no more pronouncements being made left, right and center. Any policy enunciation will come through my desk. I have made it abundantly clear that no haphazard policies will be spelt out on my behalf. The Act of Education is quite clear. The issue is for the new schools to have a national outlook. Indeed, that is the whole purpose of educational opportunities. We do not want to educate our children who are only confined to a particular ethnic group or geographical location. However, we would like, through the process of acquiring education, that our children also get to know about the diversity of this nation through culture, geography, civic education and the actual classroom education, hence the need to continue maintaining the national schools so that we have the cross cutting fusion which is very important for national cohesion. I will tell you from a position of recent experience that after the post-election violence, when we adopted this policy, it became one of the major issues that brought about the healing process much faster than we would have engaged in any political debates. Eng. Gumbo said that he had a problem. I can understand; why not his old school, Cardinal Otunga, Sengera and Lwak in that order. I want to appreciate your sentiments about Cardinal Otunga. If you listened to me, when I read out the criteria, you will see that we are looking at somebody’s child selecting a school of his choice. Obviously, the first question they would ask is whether the school is a performing school or a non- performer. If it is a performer, your child would choose the school as choice number one or two and go to that school. Therefore, the simplest criteria we wanted to use is the level of consistency in the last five years. Yes, I agree that Cardinal Otunga had very bright students, including you, as an engineer, today. Those were the days. But now, we want them to come a little bit higher. You will also appreciate that the older school which is the mother of all secondary schools in that area is Kisii High School. I think it is only fair when it is considered among sister schools that the older school gets the first opportunity. I would like to combine the question of proximity with---"
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