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    "id": 994086,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "do not choose whether or not you will be oversighted. We have not suspended the Constitution. I will urge Senators to stand with us on this. Sen. Faki will tell you that initially in my Committee I was being accussed of being too friendly to the Government when one of the Cabinet Secretaries did not appear before us. When I issued the summons, they thought that since they are our friends, they could deal with my Committee as they wished. I want to tell them even if they are our friends, we are not calling them for tea. It is not a coffee date that they can say they will appear before us when they find time. They are coming to play their constitutional role of answering to the people of Kenya through their elected representatives. I do not know why that culture crept in. Before I joined Parliament, I used to work in the National Treasury in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Uhuru Kenyatta who is now the President of Kenya. Whenever he would be called to Parliament as the Minister of Finance, even if he had been summoned by President Mwai Kibaki; he would tell him to allow him first to finish with Parliament. President Kibaki was very clear that if you are called by Parliament that is your first priority unless it is the Cabinet Day. That used to happen in the Ninth Parliament. Parliament does not want to call CSs unnecessarily. Nowadays our meetings are online. It is so simple. We have been doing meetings while Sen. Faki is in Mombasa, Sen. Omogeni is in Nyamira and Sen. Linturi is in Meru. You just login and we finish in one hour. We will take action against the CS of Education. We will bring that communication because we have a problem in the education sector. There is no education going on. We have not been able to be honest enough to explain to Kenyans and tell them the quality of our students this year is not the same. It has declined. We tell people to teach their children at home or to watch education programmes on television. There is no education. I do not think you can say a class eight student of this year is of the same quality as a class eight student of last year. Since March, no learning has been going on. You cannot say that they will do an exam based on the first term and move on to form one. So, we need radical, real and honest resolutions. Learners from low income households, pastoralists communities and far-flung regions have no access to internet, electricity and relevant gadgets. We said children should not have phones. If they do not have phones, how will they access the content? Even many of their parents may not have phones or television sets. You will see that today, it is class seven being taught geography, tomorrow, it is a class two English and and so on. There is no programme. The programme is currently being aired by the Kenyan Institute of Curriculum Development. They do not incorporate suitable content for learners with disabilities, especially the blind and the deaf. How do we address those? The practical subjects are not covered. You cannot do chemistry, physics or biology practicals online. The programmes do not serve the main objective of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). So, we really need that engagement. CS Magoha is my good friend; he was my professor. We had a very interesting relationship when I was a student leader in Student organization of Nairobi The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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