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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think this is a subject that should be of great interest and concern to all Kenyans as a whole. This is because a society that creates equity amongst the citizenry essentially becomes stable. The more unequal a society is, the more socially and politically unstable it remains. Indeed, if you look at places where revolutions have been forced by societies, one of the ingredients of those revolutions is inequity in societies. One of the ways of ensuring that our society moves equality to the greatest extent possible is by ensuring that our children get an opportunity in not just education but quality education, in a manner that a child from Kuria, for example, will feel they have got as much opportunity as that in Nyeri, Mombasa and Turkana. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, pushing further the argument that has been proposed by Sen. Zani, I am of the view that not only should they be categorized that way, but fundamental changes should be made in our education system, so that we can achieve what she is proposing. She has quoted the Fourth Schedule which makes the Early Childhood Development (ECD) education a function of the county government and upper education a function of the national Government. Since I was a child I have never 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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