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    "id": 951208,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/951208/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Yatta, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Kilonzo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 46,
        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. One of the recommendations of this Sessional Paper No.1 of 2019 is the issue of relevance. In particular, paragraph 6 speaks of emphasis on relevance of skills for industrial development. When I talk about relevance, those of us who did history in secondary school know that it was the most irrelevant subject. For example, we were taught about evolution of mankind. We were taught that mankind started with Australopithecus, Zinjanthropus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens. I have never found the relevance of all those terminologies in my lifetime and I am yet to find the relevance. We were told in primary school the first man to see Mt. Kenya. What is the relevance of first a man to see Mt. Kenya in somebody’s life? So, as I support this, I also want to say that the cost of education is getting out of control. The National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Government under the then President Mwai Kibaki promised us free primary education. However, today, there is no such thing as free primary education. Today, we have something called Parents Teachers Association fees to pay teachers who are employed by the parents. We have tuition fees which were banned. We have sports fees, activity fees and exam fees. If you visit your primary school, every day you will find kids being sent home to look for money. Indeed, the Government needs to allocate more money to secondary and primary education."
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