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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kipyegon Ng’eno",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Like I have said it before, such kind of Motions need to come in form of amendment Bills so that after debating and passing them in this House, they are enacted into law. As you may know, these are issues that affect the whole country. Therefore, it is important that such a Motion is enacted as a law that will compel the Government of Kenya to implement it like it did with the 100 per cent transition of students from primary schools to secondary schools. For many of us who visit many countries, we have seen situations where education has been prioritised such that it is rare to find any person who has not seen the inside of a university. In fact, three quarters of the population in Europe and America have gone to university. It does not matter whether after pursuing that university education, you get employed or not. It is important that people go through that kind of education. I was also in a country where almost everybody has a Masters degree, including shoe shiners, painters and furniture fundis. Those are people who have gone through university education. When they do their work, they do it perfectly. When you find a shoe shiner who has a degree or a Masters degree, they do it so perfectly that you may stay for more than two weeks without shining your shoes. So, it is a fallacy in this county of believing that when you open up the university doors, there will be many graduates and thus idlers. I do not understand that concept. We need to open up our education system in the country. We need an educated Republic. We need people who have gone through serious education. Employment opportunities in this county are many. Nowadays, you will find many people working as quacks, especially in the medicine field. Those could be people who have been yearning to be doctors for a long time. However, because they did not have the opportunity to join the Kenya Medical Training Colleges (KMTCs) or universities to study, they ended up treating people without the basic education. That shows you that there are many people in this country who, if given an opportunity to go to school, they will do marvelous things. We have seen serious business people who have never gone to school. If they were to have a diploma or a degree, we would have serious business people in the Republic. I, therefore, wish to support his Motion on policy measures to ensure 100 per cent transition from secondary education to tertiary education. I hope in future we are going to have 100 per cent transition to universities. Anybody who goes through primary education must go through secondary education, college education and university education. Those who do not qualify to directly join universities can qualify to do certificate courses, then diploma and higher national diploma and finally a degree. So, we should have a situation in our country where anyone who has gone to school must go through all those relevant stages in education, so that we can have a nation of learners. The 100 per cent transition of primary school learners to secondary school is going to fill our secondary schools. Where will those students go immediately after secondary education? This Motion is important. I want to urge the Member who introduced it to ensure that it is drafted as a Bill and passed into law. We have money. Sometimes, I wonder why we cry when we touch on matters of health and education. Those are fundamental areas of human life. It will be prudent for us, as Members of Parliament, to ensure that when we are budgeting, we allocate a lot of money to those two fundamental areas. An educated nation is a bright nation that makes its people civil and looks The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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