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    "id": 902709,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Statement. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a mean grade of D+ is a qualification; it is not a failure. Whoever that placed D+ as a qualification did a survey. The education function rests at the national level. However, it has been having a lot of confusion of late. For example, changes in policies, curriculum and qualifications which are confusing yet they deal with the same children that they need to elevate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, of late, we have seen clips on television where some children are sitting on stones while others do not have roofs for their classrooms. These children continue to be discriminated upon by discontinuing their education. If at all, some of these children get D+, then, the Ministry is misleading the whole country. It is a disadvantage. It is also bad for the Ministry of Education to come up with this policy. The Ministry of Education has become a personal home where when a Minister comes in, he or she does his or her own things and wants to control every sector. It is time for sectors that align themselves with the education of our children to take a narrow look and sensitize themselves with the important responsibilities that they need to undertake for our children. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Ministry as a whole do not agree. Where are they taking our children? Lastly, it is wrong for the Ministry to force or change children‟s careers or determine their livelihoods with the basic education qualification. I support this Statement. The Committee of this House should go ahead and invite the Cabinet Secretary. We should have a Committee of the Whole to discuss Prof. Magoha and sectors that align themselves with education of our children. We are fed up with what is happening in the education sector in our country."
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