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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to seek the following clarifications. In addition to what the distinguished Senator for Nyeri has raised, I have three or four questions to ask. First, we have no issues on the criteria to have two schools per county as a base. However, where is equity when a county as large as Kakamega County, with a population of over two million people, is given two national schools and another county, with a population of 110,000 people is also given two national schools? I thought the more rational approach would have been two schools basic for each county and upgrade the number in accordance with the population. Counties that had many schools like Kiambu County did not deserve to get any more national schools because they were already oversupplied. However, there are counties like Kisumu, Machakos, Nyeri, Kakamega, Bungoma and Nandi and others, which should have been more than two national schools, so that we can accommodate the population. Secondly, the Ministry went to counties like Nyeri and took the best performing schools that have had universities entrance rate of almost a 100 per cent. I can tell you of Kamusinga High School in my county, which fields 187 students and in any exam, the last one would have a C plus. That means every student qualified to join a university. Now that it has been given national status, standards are being compromised by drawing children from everywhere. We have no problem with that, but admit children who are qualified, so that the schools are not pulled down in their performance in the name of giving them national status. That is what should be done."
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