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"content": "eight of them? What have you done to your people that you require to be protected with guns? Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you were campaigning, you were the one who campaigned. When you get elected, you require eight bodyguards to protect you. What you are they protecting? What is this that you have taken from your people and now you do not want them to access you? I see people walk into funerals where a whole tent is occupied by you, your bodyguards, aides, communication officers and advisors. On this issue of advisors, I am happy that the President has said that they will cut down on advisors. In my opinion, advise should look like a pregnancy. You cannot be losing cases like we have seen in the County Government of Meru and you have a legal advisor. Why do you need him? If you have no tangible economic policies that we can see, why do you require an economic advisor? This afternoon, we have been seized with a matter that the County Government of Meru will have to pay Kshs600 million for penalties and what has been awarded by court because they chased an investor from a hotel that is worth Kshs150 million. What are we doing to our people? Why do we need to push this kind of money to the counties, and it is spent or used just like that? Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the quest of occupying, if the young people want us to fight corruption, the next place they must occupy are the county governments. The county governments must be occupied. The next people that they must visit should be the governors. I know my time is running out, but there is something that has been mentioned on education and I want to canvass my thoughts on that. In my opinion, education is the only thing that equalizes us on opportunities. With tremendous respect to the Senator for Siaya County, I will just use this example. In 1964, the Vice-President of this Republic was Hon. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. In 1964, my mother, the late Jane Njeri was born then. In September, 2022, the son of the late first Vice-President and the son of a peasant woman born in 1964 were sworn in this House as Senators. Why was this? This is because the only thing equalizing us now is education. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is for this reason that we must try and make education as cheap as it can be. I am persuaded that we must do away with bursaries. This is because not everyone is able to access bursaries. You know that when you allow politicians to be dishing out bursaries, the people that get this money are the same people who campaigned for them. You get bursary because you campaigned for your Member of County Assembly (MCA). You campaign for your Member for Parliament (MP) or governor, you get bursaries. At the end of the year, one child is at home because they cannot pay school fees and the other child leaves school with an excess because their parents can access bursaries. Bursaries have been made a reserve of families of politicians, their girlfriends or the bimbos that just walk around politicians. This must come to an end. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if this money is there, as the Senator for Kiambu was able to elucidate here, that we have money in the CDF, in county governments, the governors’ kitty and money in the Ministry, why not amalgamate this money? This is so that the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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