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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for National Heritage",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": " Thank you Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute briefly to this Motion. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Vote. I support the Minister and his senior officers in the way they handled some of the crisis we had been through the other day. The post election violence is not the biggest crisis that we have had. I think the other big crisis that should go to the annals of history of this country is the schools' strike. I want to thank the Minister because he came out very clearly and put his political life on the line. I would also like to thank his officers for putting that thing to an end. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, they need a lot of support, especially from parents and Parliamentarians. This is because we cannot go on with violence in schools and think we have a system of education that can help this country for years to come. These students have to be disciplined. These students must know that they talk about being leaders of tomorrow. How can you be a leader of tomorrow when you start by burning dormitories with your friends and so forth? I want it to be known that I personally support the Minister. Surprisingly, he has been my colleague and pal for a long time. We have been in and out of the Government together. Therefore, we kind of think the same way. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not want to annoy the Minister but I would want to say that this free and compulsory education in certain regions in this country is amiss. It must be known very clearly. If our children in pastoral community do not have teachers, what do you expect? What an intelligent and well thinking man knows is that people from those areas cannot get education. If you do not have teachers, then you do not have education. This free and compulsory education, as I said, has been amiss in certain areas. I know very well that our communities have now agreed to send their children to school. It is not like many years ago. They now know that it is important to send children to school. But where do they go? They have no teachers! Their parents are not even capable of employing as many teachers as they want to teach in their schools. So where do they go? They play around in the play grounds, gather some dirty bad habit and go home. That is what it is! Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, although the other day the Minister corrected me, I 2512 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 7, 2008 have always known that the greater Narok has been short of 1,600 teachers. What do you expect in an area like that? It shows very clearly that those children are going to be slaves of other children from other communities and regions. It is true! If you look at some small things like admissions into colleges; teachers colleges, medical colleges and other colleges, about three years ago, they said the entry point was grade D Plus. Now, they have raised it to grade C. It is true that some of these areas like where I come from and where my friend Mr. Affey comes from, are being discriminated."
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