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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I beg to reply. Let me start by thanking the Senators very sincerely for their well thought out and very constructive contributions. I know that from the outset, the Motion was a little bit mixed. Therefore, it is right that it has elicited different sort of interpretations to the intention. Nevertheless, I could also see that the intention finally was coming out clearly. For us, what we are all saying is that we want to have schools that are well equipped in terms of infrastructure - libraries, workshops – and in terms of teachers so that we do not have differentiation. At that point, we are all speaking from the same page because at the end of the day, what we are saying is that if we are to have sustainable education and have people perform well, then we need these sorts of facilities. The differentiation is coming in terms of whether we want that to come at the county level or at the level it is now, just as a point of giving more information and for clarification. County schools are already in existence. It is not a fabrication of Sen. (Dr.) Zani, coming from the coast region to say we want county schools and we do not want members from outside coast counties. That is a misinterpretation or misrepresentation of this Motion. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Motion is very clear in the sense that we already have county schools in existence. What we are saying is that instead of having the differentiation of standardization at national and then at county levels, let us formalize, streamline and have all of them being referred to as county schools so that we do not have the differentiation at all. It is not so much of the name and one of the Senators, in their contribution – I think it was Sen. Wangari – indicated very clearly that it should not be so much of the name that we need to think about, but the processes that are happening within the schools and how to begin to change those schools. Because at the end of the day, what we want is a better performance for everybody. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the idea from Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o that why should we not think about a process where we are moving from basic education right 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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