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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "The same officers who are increasing the intake have not made any arrangements for infrastructural development. I wonder where the money is going to come from. By extension, this will lower the quality of education because we will have substandard facilities in schools. Therefore, the examinations will be a formality. Examination fraud will be common since it will be happening every day and everywhere. We would not like to do such a thing. The charges that we have been paying to KNEC for schools have been good enough. They are a bit considerate. At least, we should have parents paying something. Every one of us here will be very proud to pay some nominal dowry for you to be complacent that you have a wife. However, I do not think you will even have respect for a wife you got for free. This brings me to the second option, which is that we have had students who are half-baked since the introduction of free education. If you engage many of the 8-4-4 university graduates today, you will realise that their level of conceptualisation is very low because of mass production. So, we are going to have people coming from the village and going to school for free, courtesy of the Government; and sitting for examinations which they will not have paid for and then the quality of education will go down. We want students who are taught not to pass examinations but who are taught to look really clever. They should not be book-clever but they should be people who can go out there and meet challenges. They should be fully prepared. I oppose this Bill and ask those who are concerned with education, more so the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, whose membership is here; that after the exit of hon. Kazungu Kambi from the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services, the other maverick Cabinet Secretary that should have exited like yesterday is the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Science and Technology. This is because he is bringing down the standards of education by making maverick statements every day and doing very little to improve the standard of education."
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