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    "content": "know of people who quite rightly come to Members of Parliament year in, year out, saying “I want you to do a harambee for me to send my children to school.” Of course, going to school is a noble thing, but there are much more deserving people in the rural areas who Members of Parliament and Senators should help rather than an individual who, obviously, has many children and could as well do more farming to support them. They will continuously burden a Member of Parliament. Somebody gave me an example today not connected to this, that you can find a man with ten acres of land whose son is going to college. Rather than sell one acre and invest in the education of the son, that ten acres will lie idle for years and years, and he will still resort to harambees to get money to send his children to school. Now, the ten acres is not being used, they are not being productive because they are not investing in the land. There is a certain pride that we have in having ten acres of land. If those ten acres were sold to somebody who can put it to productive use and then that money is used to educate a son or a daughter, it would be much, much better. So, again, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these are the kinds of excesses that this law is trying to cure so that our assets are put to productive use, rather than being protected unproductively, then we raid other people’s incomes, which can be their savings, to do what is our responsibilities as citizens of the nation. So, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move."
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