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    "content": "National Development, is to continue providing free primary education as a way of implementing equity in this country. We, as a country, must look forward to making all basic learning schools, both primary and secondary combined and not separate, as a priority for our children. When a pupil starts school in a primary school, he should go all the way to Form Four in the same school. You should not start thinking that the moment that you do Standard Eight, there will be competition for some people to go to national schools while others to provincial schools, if your school goes up to Form Four, it is equipped and given proper teachers to give basic education which is primary and secondary. Let us run away from this idea of having primary schools and secondary schools, provincial and national schools. This is extremely unprogressive. Looking ahead, we should follow what we recommended in the NARC Government and aim at making sure that those are full basic schools from Standard One to Form Four. In that regard, schooling just like health should be a county problem. I do not understand why the national Government should be worried about what national school is doing well in Othoch Karakuom in South Nyanza. They do not even know where Othoch Karakuom is. The best thing is to ensure that county governments, where we have a very good structure have a ward administrator, sub county administrator, county administrator from the village level to the top of the county. They should care about welfare delivery. Health, like education, is a welfare delivery. We have now made a good step in making health a county responsibility. We should make education a county responsibility rather than having this juvenile thing of saying that Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) will be a county affair and the primary and secondary education will be a national government affair. You then listen to Professor, whatever his name is; the Minister of Education, shouting like a wild wolf about results. He should leave these things to counties where we have a Minister for Education at that level. We should have someone who can address people at that level. He should not be shouting himself hoarse every now and then announcing results on who is leading and why this year we have abolished ranking. That is not the issue. The issue is that we do not have proper policy for basic education. We should make sure that we have proper policy for basic education. County governments should be given resources to run proper social welfare at the county level. These are the global issues that should be addressed in this nation. This is like trying to understand what an elephant looks like when you are blind and you think that it appears in a certain way just because you have touched one part. That is what Professor Kaimenyi does all the time. He thinks that by shouting, he is doing something phenomenal. He is not! He should tackle one problem of education; for instance, how does positioning affect education? We should have a national culture of giving basic education that makes sure that counties look after basic education. If you give counties proper resources, of course, they will fund the schools. Citizens get concerned about social welfare before getting concerned about anything else. People will skin you if they do not have schools to send their children to or dispensaries and health centres. When they do not have proper roads, 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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