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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want to have a situation where the Government follows the law to the letter. You will remember that in the last Session of this Parliament, there was the issue of the appointment of Dr. Rotich to be a director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). His appointment was not approved by the President and it was said that there were some issues which were casting aspersions on the name of Dr. Rotich. About a month or two months ago, the name of Dr. Rotich was cleared and it has been said that he did not participate in any wrong-doing. That makes us wonder why the Government has not appointed Dr. Rotich to that office even after having been cleared. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the first place, the law had been flouted because the procedure should have been that he should have been appointed and a tribunal set up to look at his character. If he was found guilty, he should have been sent home and if he was found not guilty, then he should have proceeded with his appointment. Let me also talk briefly about the education sector. We are very grateful that free primary education has been introduced and quite a lot of pupils are now in school. However, we must look at the education sector in totality. First, we should not call this free primary education if we are not able to employ sufficient numbers of teachers. Prof. Saitoti was here, but unfortunately he has just left. In our constituencies, particularly mine, there are schools which have forced the parents to employ private teachers because they have one or two teachers from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). We should think of what to do about the teaching in our primary schools. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us look at the university education. We have about 150 Kenyan students in Uganda. Most of them are in Kampala International University and a few others in Makerere University. This country is losing billions of shillings to our neighbouring countries, yet we can improve our education system and absorb those students. Quite a lot of other students go to the United States of America and other countries. It is about time we looked at the education sector more pro-actively, so that we can retain our students, train high quality students and take care of the parents, so that they do not suffer. Let me touch on the general issues of employment. I would not want to go into the details of that, but this Government has done a few good things. There was one genius in France in the 17th and 18th centuries called Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a very short man, probably the size of my friend, hon. Moroto. Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte was a genius. He was very good at war and at the economy. He even introduced so many things. He introduced something called Code Napoleon and the legion of honour like the ones which we keep on giving people and saying that, that is the Order of the Burning Spear and so on. He introduced very good military formations. He was a very sharp General and he became the Emperor of France. Out of the very many good things which he did, there are just a few things which led him to the Waterloo. Waterloo is a place in Belgium and that is where Napoleon Bonaparte's empire crumbled. The main reason why this happened, and this is why I want the Government to take cognisance of what it is doing, Napoleon Bonaparte made all his brothers kings of some small states within the Empire of France. He employed his brothers in-law and his sisters. His mother March 28, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 215 was employed in one of the state institutions. Despite the fact that he was a genius, the French Republic crumbled. They could not go to war and win because when you are sending your brothers, it becomes extremely difficult to co-ordinate properly because there is no professionalism. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Government has done quite some good things. It has improved the economy and, at least, we can see the figures. In the agricultural sector, we can see some improvement. If you talk of the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC), which had collapsed, it has improved. I will not talk about the cereals sector because it has not improved much. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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