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    "id": 601640,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2065,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to thank you for this opportunity. My father passed on and left us a very big piece of land – almost eight acres. The only thing he did was to educate us. Our grandchildren and his grandchildren can only rely on education, and not land. Land was relied on in the past, but not now. It is good that this Bill is here. During the Third Reading, we will introduce amendments. I would like to talk about some of the issues that we need to address in this Bill. I would like to look at the Board. As you know, MPs are very important at the sub-county level. In my case, I am everything. Apart from dealing with education, I deal with all the social problems in my sub-county. It is important that MPs are involved at all stages. Therefore, I take great exception. We should bring some amendments during the Third Reading so that an MP can personally, or through effective representation by either his manager or somebody he feels is educated enough, can be represented in the board. Clause 5 talks about an MP who just sits there and observes. The Member may make a contribution but may not be taken seriously because he does not have the voting power. We may be very busy attending those meetings but we should be represented and take part in decision making. The Member may contribute but since he does not have the voting power, it will be as good as saying nothing. It will be a talking shop. We must exercise our full rights because we are everything when it comes to education. On qualifications, I quite agree with the previous speaker. The qualification is wanting. We cannot have somebody who does not have post-secondary education as a member of the Board. Some of them are quite good. You will find the person without the necessary qualifications suffering from inferiority complex because one will be dealing with people with a higher level of education. That will result in one’s contribution being treated as less important. The qualification of the members of the Sub-County Education Board should be amended to ensure that they have post-secondary school education. The role of the Board is very important. The last examination at the secondary and primary level was marred with leakages. At this stage, I think I should hold the KNEC wholly responsible for the mess we had in the previous examinations. The Board should play its role so that we do not have a repeat of what we had this year. I talked to one headmistress and I was very amused. She told me that as they were coming up with topics for revision, one student raised his hand and said that they did not want to be taught a certain topic. That means students knew the kind of questions in the examination. The Committee, through their able Chair, who is here, should hold the KNEC wholly responsible for the leakages in the national examinations. I am told that those students who were expelled and went back to school to sit the examinations will do better compared to those who were in school. The boards should be more responsive. We should give them more powers so that anybody with examination leakages can be punished. We have shortage of teachers and the Board should be involved in employing teachers. We now have the PTA. This is very bad because schools do not have teachers. In Kenya, we have a shortage of 80,000 teachers but the Government is not able to employ even 5,000 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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