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    "id": 882511,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/882511/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to that of the petitioner on education issues, especially the primary school co-curricular activities together with secondary school co-curricular activity so that the Committee looks at it entirely when it will be looking at this. Currently, the Government has moved from the cognitive curriculum that was mainly giving a lot of emphasis to the cognitive skills to the competence based curriculum (CBC). In the CBC co-curricular activities become extremely important because they are developing the learner’s skills on psychomotor and other level of skill development which are important. Unfortunately, these co-curricular activities are not funded. If they are funded like the petitioner has put, they are poorly funded. Currently, the little funding that goes to the co-curriculum activities in both primary and secondary schools is taken to schools but the head teachers are asked to return it to the ministry officials. So, it is the ministry officials who are actually controlling these funds. That is why Members of Parliament and parents are later on asked to give money to support these activities, when the original capitation for co-curriculum is with the ministry officials. This is an issue that will be very important for this country as we move forward the CBC curriculum. I support that Petition. Thank you."
}