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    "content": "While I support this Motion, I know that the position articulated here by the Mover of the Motion, hon. Dukicha, applies 100 per cent to the area I come from. I do not know whether Rangwe Constituency is ASAL or not. If it is not ASAL, this Motion is relevant to many other parts of the country and not only to the ASAL areas. Education is the most critical thing in realizing development. I support the girl- child education in this country. I look forward to having 100 per cent enrolment of girls in both primary and secondary education. Even as I support the girl-child education, I am very clear in my mind that the boy-child is equally lagging behind now, and education investment should be made to make both boys and the girls attain quality primary and secondary education. I, therefore, support education. I am glad that currently, in the Budget Estimates that we have just dispensed with, about Ksh3 billion has been allocated to education. I look forward to this House coming up with something like a School Infrastructure Development Fund that will address the situation in schools infrastructure throughout the country. This will also enable the ASAL areas to grow. In Rangwe Constituency, I had only one girls boarding secondary school and it became a national school. So, it now admits girls from all over the country, including from ASAL areas. That left my constituency without a secondary school for girls. This year, we have just started a secondary school for girls and I look forward to this House looking for ways of appropriating money in the future to help constituencies like mine to build more boarding schools for girls and even for boys. The problem of boarding schools is a national issue. For a constituency like mine, which is considered a high potential constituency, the girls drop out of schools because they have to use boda bodas from their homes to school. For this reason, they find it difficult to continue being in school. The ladies in this House know what I am talking about. The boda boda operators who take the girls to school take advantage and they get into relationships with the girls; this makes it difficult for the girls to continue being in school. As we address the issue of the ASAL areas, I would like boarding schools for girls to be increased in my constituency to cater for the upper primary and secondary school girls. In Rangwe, we have one school called Nyariang’a Girls, which has boarding facilities and Rangwe Girls, which has just started and does not have boarding facilities. If we manage as a House to establish this School Infrastructure Development Fund, I will be able to also find money to develop primary schools."
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