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    "id": 780474,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "I am also taking this opportunity to look at the whole education sector. There is a good and commendable effort to transform the education system in this country. However, I can see programmes being initiated and implemented immediately without a proper master plan. Look at the issue of free secondary education. Look at what parents went through when they were told education was free only for them to be slapped with hidden levies, which the Ministry had stated should not be there. Parents were forced to pay those levies because we do not have a clear monitoring system to stop such a thing. Look at the issue of 100 per cent transition. We now have classes with 90 children. Is it possible to get all kids going to secondary school, especially in Form One? Indeed, it is a commendable effort and actually the direction for us to take. However, you need to sit down for a year or two and plan with regard to the number of classrooms and teachers needed. Even the issue we have now on the single identity for students, we saw parents running all over the place looking for birth certificates. They went to the offices of registration of births which eventually ran out of paper to print the certificates. This is the same Government where one arm is making a demand and another arm cannot meet the demand. Look at the issue of 100 per cent transition: the policy now is that you cannot start more secondary schools. How do you not start more secondary schools when you want to achieve 100 per cent transition? I think we need a master plan. The efforts are good and transformations are required, but planning will get us there so that we can deliver."
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