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    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "and Elburgon Secondary School among others. These institutions have made us attractive as an education destination in Nakuru County. Most parents across the county want to bring their students to study in Molo. During school visiting days, you will find businesses thrive like the Mama Kevin’s Hotel in Molo Town. We have used the NG-CDF to enhance dignity in our public schools. Recently, we carried out renovations in several primary schools, including my former primary school, Mwangi Michuki Primary; Mukinyai Primary School; Mariashoni Primary School and Turi Sulgwita Primary School. It was amazing that when we put tiles in the classrooms of these schools, the students did not want to go back home because they felt that the classrooms are better than their homes. I told them that is a sign that if they work hard, they will also live in tiled homesteads in future. We did that to enhance the dignity of the pupils and make them feel that they are not children of a lesser God. They will now study in an environment that has the correct infrastructure. For secondary schools, - I will really urge other Members of Parliament to take note of this - the Ministry is not keen in funding laboratories in terms of construction and equipping science laboratories in secondary schools. We have a bigger problem when it comes to Junior Secondary Schools. The challenge in this is that those students who cannot afford to go to the big secondary schools that have this infrastructure will be limited when it comes to the science subjects. When you have a student going to sit for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination and that is the first time they are seeing a burette or a pipette, you do not expect them to compete competitively with students from other schools like Alliance or Starehe. Having gone through a day school, I have made a point of making sure that all the day secondary schools in Molo constituency have a complete and equipped science laboratory. We are 98 per cent there. I want to urge other constituencies to do the same so that our schools have the correct infrastructure. The Kenya Kwanza administration talks about the digital highway as the next frontier of spurring economic growth. This is not just a Kenya Kwanza administration manifesto. It is a global thing. The Kenya Kwanza administration talks about digital highway as the next frontier in swerving economic growth. It is not just a Kenya Kwanza administration manifesto but it is a global thing. I meet people all the time who live here in Kenya but actually work in the United Kingdom or the United States of America. They probably have to travel physically to the office once a quarter or even once a year. We should enhance digital skills and computer literacy of our students by constructing ICT laboratories in schools. We have attempted to build a pilot one in a few secondary schools in Molo and having ICT hubs across the wards, as the Hon. John Kiarie, the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation, is encouraging us to do. We have started building one at Sachangwan and Huduma Centre in Molo town, and we hope that the first floor is going to be an ICT hub. Enhancement of digital skills is going to make sure that learners get the skills that are required globally. This will ensure that once they clear primary school or high school, they are able to compete for global opportunities. This world has now become a global village thanks to the digital superhighways and the use of ICT for information dissemination. With that, I beg to support this Report and urge the House to adopt it as proposed by the Chairperson of the Special Funds Accounts Committee. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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