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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was wondering whether my luck had run out today. However, thank you for this chance to contribute to this Motion for the Ministry of Education. I would like to add my voice of tribute on my own behalf and the Constituency of Kimilili in Bungoma North for the good work the Ministry is performing in this country. You are performing a very good task but you are up against very difficult people in this country. This is to the extent that they have loaded your schools with too many children because the family planning system has virtually failed. So, you have very many children to provide for. To add insult to injury, they have actually provoked your students into rioting by setting bad examples in the last one year by burning tyres all over to get their way. When the children followed suit, they formed a Commission of Inquiry from Parliament to investigate the obvious. We gave them the bad example which they followed. They rioted in sympathy with us. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would just like to mention that, Professor, you taught me very well in school and I believe you are going to do a good job in the Ministry of Education. However, you are up against a very difficult population. These are people who would rather build churches than schools. Actually, right now, there are more harambees for churches than those for building schools which is very unfortunate. I think we need a change of thinking amongst our people. You need to rise up and strike a blow against tribalism in this country. The education system has contributed to tribalism in this country, to the extent that a child born in Kakamega will go to primary school in Kakamega, high school in Kakamega and university in Kakamega and even study up to Doctor of Philosophy in Kakamega; that fellow has never ever seen a Mkamba! He or she has never seen a Turkana. What he hears are stereotypes! Can you remove that thing at the end of Standard Eight, so that children can be distributed randomly by computer, if necessary, so that October 8, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2601 they can go to school all over this country? Rise up and strike a blow against tribalism in this country. The other thing that we could do---"
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