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    "content": "Government to ensure that whatever it is that the earlier governments agreed upon with the teachers, they go ahead and honour. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will keep it short because I want the hon. Senators to ventilate on this issue. But before I do so, there is a very glaring issue, namely, the Cabinet Secretaries that are in charge of the line departments. The Cabinet Secretary, Kambi Kazungu and Cabinet Secretary, Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi, have set out from yesterday on a very dangerous tangent. Their pronouncements are fueling this national crisis. I request this Senate to find that we cannot allow, in present day Kenya, a public servant who is operating under the new Constitution, to exercise any modicum of dictatorship. These statements issued in arrogance, covered with irresponsibility and intended to result in nothing helpful, should immediately be withdrawn by the two Cabinet Secretaries. In fact, these two Cabinet Secretaries should offer an apology to the entire nation. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is important that Kenyans know that Kenya is not broke. There is so much money in this country given the fact that one morning, the Deputy President can wake up and hire a special jet to go to do some business in some corners of Africa; in nations that do not do any business with Kenya. This country is so rich that as we force our children out of class, we want to give the same children who are not in class laptops worth Kshs53 billion. I hope the top leadership of this country has time to read newspapers. There is a child who was featured in one of the dailies; her name is Atieno. She is a pupil in a primary school in Mombasa. You look at her and you can see that she is typically a child of the poor. The little genius; a potential professor who would go to the dental school and teach like Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi, was crying that she has not been allowed to go to school to be taught. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are advising the Government that this pet white elephant of theirs in the name of laptops for every Standard One child be shelved and this money be used to pay the teachers so that learning can continue the way it has been doing. Since we know that the proceedings of the Senate are followed locally, continentally and internationally, we must emphasize that all the Members here support Information Technology (IT). We want all our children to be given laptops to have access to computer technology education. However, we must also do it in a manner that will have logic and save public funds. What do I mean? There is nothing difficult by this Government starting off by putting up one computer lab in each primary school, and then the leadership of the school will decide which hours of the day and which days of the week a particular class will go to that particular computer lab. In the process, all the children in the primary school will have access to computer education. Madam Temporary Speaker, although this Motion does not require anybody to second me, but I beg that you allow Sen. James Orengo to speak immediately after me because I know how he feels. I hear that the grandfather to the young girl, Atieno, actually came from Siaya. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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