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    "content": "The move by the Government to create national schools outside the known national schools was a noble idea. What we should now be fighting for is to have funds to build the 30 additional national schools to centres of excellence so that Moi Nyabohanse in Kuria, which is now a national school, should be at the same standard as Alliance Girls High School. We should have even more schools upgraded to that status. These schools should be ordered not to limit their acceptance of students from the local areas. They should admit students from all over the country. That is the ill that is befalling Kenya now. Some schools are now being localized. A student will join Maseno Primary School, Maseno Secondary School, Maseno University and, at the end of the day, he ends up teaching in Maseno Secondary School. This is somebody who is not a nationalist and that should be avoided. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, whereas Sen. (Dr.) Zani may have the intention of alleviating marginalization in educational matters, maybe this approach is not the best. Maybe we need to think a little bit deeper about the real ill, but not to put all schools at the same level. It will not work because people are not the same. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I admire one thing with Sen. (Dr.) Zani’s Motion; that feeling of the marginalized people and societies that they need to have their schools developed. I encourage you and everybody else to have that feeling and that desire in the system. The worse thing we can do is to think of decentralizing education. We made a big mistake by decentralizing the health-care service in this country. To me, decentralization of health services to the county governments was a big mistake which should not be repeated. We should not make another mistake by putting political pressure in having county schools. Instead, the Government should be forced to build all schools to be at the same level. We should insist that they admit their students from all over the country. It used to be that way when I, Sen. G.G. Kariuki and even you went to school. However, it is during the time of the former Murang’a Member of Parliament (MP) as the Minister for Education---"
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