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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wario",
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        "legal_name": "Ali Wario",
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    "content": "measure performance of students for a country which has different levels of development. That rule is not fair. There is another issue that I want to share. There have been different consultants at different levels. There is the Omingo Report on Education of 1974; the Koech Report of 1980s and the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) 2002 Report. They all raise a red flag in terms of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) and children of pastoralists. Key issues in this Report are enrolment and retention rates. We are at the very basic. Educational issues of enrolment and retention have not been addressed for the last 50 years and you want to come up with a tool to bring all schools at par. This law will do more harm than bringing solutions to the problem that are facing the education sector. The other issue is the plight of the children of pastoralists. Fortunately or unfortunately, the fate of those children is determined by the climatic condition they live in. If it rains, well and good, we continue with education. Because of their way of life, they are forced to move from one position to the other in search of pasture and water in times of drought. In those processes, the children are forced to alternate between their way of life and academic excellence. If we come up with a tool of ranking a kid in a place called Hirimani in Bura Constituency or Balambala which is inaccessible, it is unfair. We are in the process of requesting the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to recognise and register those areas as examination centres. If you take a kid from Hirimani or Balambala in Kora Secondary School and you want that kid to be ranked and do the same exam with a kid from Alliance, this law is dangerous for this country. Tana River has been leading from behind for the last 50 years in national examinations. What appropriate structures, laws and policies has the Government put in place to address that problem? As if that is not enough, you are bringing a tool which will force the marginalised and the settled people of this country to do the same exam and measure the performance of those children. At times, I doubt if the current education system is meant for the children of pastoralists. What we need as pastoralists or people from ASAL counties of Kenya is a fair play ground and affirmative action that enables us, through the Equalisation Fund, to be at par with other Kenyans. Thereafter, you can come up with the tool named ranking. With those few remarks, I stand to oppose this Bill. I know this is a minority voice. We can go further in challenging the legality of this law in the courts of law if it goes through. This is unfair to the pastoralists’ fraternity of this country. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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