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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omagwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Bomachoge Borabu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 127,
        "legal_name": "Joel Omagwa Onyancha",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to use this opportunity to thank the people of Bomachoge Borabu for electing me as their Member of the National Assembly. I want to thank them profusely for having elected me in 2002, 2007 and having confidence to re-elect me now in 2013. I want to use the same opportunity to thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for having been elected Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. Now to address myself to the Motion, I would like to thank the President for giving us the way forward for the next five years. He told us what he wants to do and involve everybody in his Government. The issue of corruption that he addressed in his Speech is something that everybody who comes around and who is in this country is concerned about. But I am happy that he has a programme to tackle the issue of corruption. Matters of security are a big issue. I am happy to see that he has a programme for tackling that. On education matters, he has a programme for laptops for Standard One pupils in public schools from next year. I know that the Jubilee Coalition made promises when it was campaigning. But I think we need to temper this with a bit of sobriety. That is because we have issues within our constituencies which really need to be addressed. We know we want to go digital, but it will be difficult for Standard One kids to handle computers. If you give a Standard One pupil a laptop--- A laptop costs about Kshs30,000 and given the number of pupils in the public primary schools, if you are to procure the laptops, then it would cost a lot of money. We have bigger problems within the primary schools that need to be addressed. In my view, it is important to go digital, but there is probably a better way to do it. We probably need to have a digital laboratory or just call it an office where you will have trained teacher in IT within the primary schools. You can then buy ten laptops for those Standard One kids. Just imagine in the rural areas where there are no roads, kids walk to school on those muddy roads of ours. When it is raining like now, imagine a kid carrying a laptop! Surely I would imagine that there is a better way of doing this. Let us go digital, but make it in such a manner that we do not have to spend over Kshs30,000 to buy one laptop for each kid going to Standard One and mess up this programme. We want our kids to go digital, but there probably needs to be a better way of doing this. I am happy that the Speech addressed itself to modernizing agriculture because it has for a long time been the backbone of our economy. Modernizing agriculture is welcome. We want to"
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