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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "that we are introducing segregation in instructions that our children are getting in our schools? In my view, if that is the intention, then it would be wrong. As I conclude, I have said it here before and I want to say it again that the first route taken by countries that seek to succeed is the path of education. This is the path that has been followed by Singapore, China, India and Taiwan. Indeed, it has been shown that there is both scientific and empirical correlation between the average number of years citizens of a country spend in a school with the average wealth of that country. This is something scientific and can be proven. The longer your people spend in school, the more the average wealth of that country is. Even as we discuss the Bill, this House as the representative of the people of Kenya must express its gravest concern to the plummet in quality of education in Kenya. As we speak today, we should ask questions for example, to what extent can our national examinations be considered to be globally competitive, when exam leakages have become the norm other than the exception, whether it is the KCPE or the KCSE? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a personal opinion that things were bad up to two years ago, but they have become worse since the man in charge of education, who in my view, only seems to specialise in banning everything took over. First, we had the ban on remedial teaching, rankings and then on mocks. We are wondering what he is going to ban next. Will it be exams or education in Kenya in general? We have to speak about these things frankly. I want to say, with humility, that we have many problems in Kenya, but the four top problems in the education sector are, first, Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi, second, Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi, thirdly, Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi and fourthly, Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi."
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