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    "id": 73384,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/73384/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, considering that the Kenya Government has made commitment to provide education to every child as a fundamental human right; acknowledging that education is an equalizer of opportunities with transformation positive effects on health, agricultural production, industrial production, crime reduction, neighbourhood interactions, nationalism and self esteem; aware that the provision of effective universal basic education has the potential to break generation cycles of poverty and equip children with life skills, knowledge, attitude and competencies for closing gender gaps, fighting HIV/AIDS, and making independent critical decisions required in adult life; considering that since Independence KCPE has acted as a screening and filtering device for more than 40 per cent of the children who cannot access any secondary education; aware that the education system cannot account for the specific alternative transition pathways for this huge group of young Kenyans and in cognition of the fact that the average primary completion rate since the introduction of Free Primary Education (FPE) has been 75 per cent and never above 81 per cent despite the abolition of school fees; and acknowledging that those shocking inefficiencies and wastage are attributable to the KCPE examinations that screens and filters out children at the age when they have not acquired necessary knowledge, skills and competencies for life-long learning and participation in a knowledge economy as envisioned in Vision 2030; this House resolves that the Government abolishes KCPE and adopts a competence-based education system that provides for a continuous uninterrupted flow of children from early childhood development up to Form IV in order to accord all Kenyan children universal basic education."
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