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    "id": 662313,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "behind in our education system. It will help us to come up with reward schemes to improve our education system. This is a good Bill but as my good friend, Hon. Erick Keter had said, we ought not to have come to where we are. This is the way it should go. Ranking is a natural thing. It happens in our daily lives and to try to attempt to do it otherwise is an exercise in futility because it will happen anyway. It is happening right now. I have a son in Maranda High School and the other day, I found him working very hard because some “small schools” in Siaya County which ordinarily ought not to play in their league had scored a better mean grade than them. Will we then not say that the fact that they knew how their neighbours in the county had performed was motivation enough for them to know where they were failing as a giant in that neighbourhood to execute measures to improve? Even as we pass this Bill, we must agree about going through this ritual every Wednesday of Members bringing Motions here. Sometimes we say: “This House urges.” Sometimes I do not know what it means to say “Urge the Executive.” To the extent that I know, a resolution of this House is a resolution of the people of Kenya. Sometimes we become more emphatic and say: “This House resolves.” We must agree that whenever this House makes a resolution on a matter, it is binding on the Executive to execute. This is the time to relook at our model of governance with regard to our legislative framework. Was it such a good idea that Cabinet Secretaries who are the frontline of the Executive be away from this House? We must find a way where whatever resolutions we make are executed, even if it means agreeing in a bipartisan manner to look at those aspects of the Constitution. In a Bill such as this, there would be a Cabinet Secretary who would take notes when we pass it and give a confirmation and undertaking to the House that what has been agreed on will be implemented. It may have been a mistake to let Cabinet Secretaries work outside Parliament. We should relook at it as well as some of the faults that exist in the current architecture of our Constitution. I support and encourage that we should go this route."
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