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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for according me this opportunity. I want from the onset to say that I support this Motion. In doing so, I want to say that hon. Members deserve this recess because they have worked very hard. I want to say that unlike what has been reported in the media, that hon. Members work for only 95 days per year, this statement is very erroneous. Hon. Members will be going on recess to do the real work. That is to be with their constituents, and try to solve their problems. I would like to challenge, particularly members of the Press, who think that hon. Members only work in this Chamber, to follow me from tomorrow. By the time we resume on 3rd October, 2006, most of them will have dropped on the way. That applies to all hon. Members because we have a lot of work to do. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with my friend, Mr. Michuki that the Government has done a lot of work. The Government has given a lot of resources for development. The Government has done a lot of improvement in education. However, having said that, the Government has also wasted a lot of resources, which could have been directed to more useful places. Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o, for example, alluded to the issue of the commissions. We were told recently of the funds that were spent by the Goldenberg Commission. I almost wept. This is because if I got the money that was paid to one Senior Counsel, Dr. Kuria, I would have provided sufficient water for my district, and you would never hear me speak here about famine relief. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we appreciate the Government's efforts in education. However, there is something that is happening and I saw the acting Minister for Education, and I hope he takes very serious note of this. All the vacancies that we have been given in Mwingi and Mbeere constituencies to recruit secondary school teachers have been taken up by candidates from other districts. These people have deliberately set certain rules, that employment should be based on \"the first to graduate\" basis. What this means is that if graduates from Mwingi Constituency completed their education in 2003, they will not be employed. Instead, they are employing candidates from Nyeri, Murang'a and other districts who completed college in 2000. They have taken all the vacancies of secondary school teachers in my constituency. I want to demand from the acting Minister that he withdraws this recruitment immediately because we will not agree that vacancies existing in our districts are taken over by other people. These people are taking all the resources and employment opportunities in our constituencies. Where are we heading to? We want to refuse this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about certificates held by board of governors and principals for students who finished secondary school education. In my constituency, for example, I have registered 1,020 such students dating as far back as 1991. Their certificates are held and they cannot access employment. This House passed a Motion asking the Government to release these certificates. The Government has refused to release them. May I, on the Floor of this House, since I have appealed to the acting Minister for Education without success, and on behalf of the youth and hon. Members of this House, appeal to His Excellency the President, to instruct the acting Minister for Education to instruct heads of schools to release certificates which have been held over the years so that these youth from poor families - and most of them are orphans - can access them, access employment and improve their living standards. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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