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    "id": 952542,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo (",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Makueni, WDM-K): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to comment on this very important Sessional Paper No.1 of 2019 on the Policy Framework for Reforming Education and Training for Sustainable Development in Kenya. First and foremost, although it has been presented, you will realise that this Sessional Paper is what will inform the policy on education in this country. The Chair is my good friend. When he was the Vice-Chair of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, I really engaged him in the other Parliament on this matter because I felt that things were not going right. I felt that there was no sufficient public participation on the education matter. I have a child in Level Three. This policy has already been implemented even before we have completed debating it. Therefore, the new policy is already implemented. Books have been printed and it is already being implemented even before we have approved the Sessional Paper. It is only a sessional paper which informs the policy and the policy informs the law. There are quite a number of statutes which are supposed to be amended to give direction within the law as to what is going to happen with the new curriculum. On my part, I find that the Government has been very high handed on this one. The Ministry of Education decided to come up with the policies and implement them even before they have been debated and passed by this House. So, that happened and a lot of people have got into trouble because of this policy. Some 288 teachers have been interdicted. There were some proceedings within the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Some were sacked and upon being sacked, there were court orders which were not obeyed. Some teachers were reinstated while others do not know their fate to date. In fact, they have appealed. They are from Makueni and particularly Kibwezi West, where Hon. Musimba represents. They are in court. We have hearings coming up in November. Therefore, people have got into trouble while trying to ask questions on this policy. These are people in the teaching profession, wananchi and representatives of KNUT. People have got into trouble for trying to straighten things. Everyone wants a new curriculum. The new curriculum is a good thing. We need to keep on improving our education. We need to fit into the standards. Although we departed from the British system, there are very many schools teaching the British system today. 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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