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    "id": 953559,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/953559/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwambu Mabongah",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Wekesa Mwambu Mabonga",
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    "content": "It is expected that in this curriculum, the teacher will handle few students in a classroom. As much as we say that the 8-4-4 System of Education is a failure, it has benefited many people. The methodology that is being used to roll out this curriculum is likely to fail. Those are the fears we are addressing and the people responsible should take that into account. In this House, you realise that most of our children especially in primary school go to private schools. This kind of curriculum is likely to benefit a few in this country. Therefore, the majority of Kenyans, poor Kenyans, are likely to suffer. You walk into some constituency and you realise that some of the schools that we have in rural areas do not even have electricity yet we are talking of our children using electronic gadgets. How are they going to access this? Every evening, my small boy wants to print something. Where will these young boys and girls in the villages get this facility? The Government must be serious. We are not experimenting some of the things on our children. We have to be serious. These are some of the concerns that we are raising. If the 8-4-4 System of Education focused on anything to do with the so-called curriculum-oriented subjects like music, carpentry and joinery, some of these things could have just been achieved. We are not saying that we are going to stop the new curriculum, we are saying that everybody should be involved –teachers, universities, tertiary institutions, the Cabinet Secretary and any other person who is involved in rolling out this curriculum so that we get the best for our children in this country."
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