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    "content": "secondary schools. But today we have about 520 primary schools courtesy of this little money called CDF. What did the original Government do then? There was nothing they were building, but they would provide teachers although not sufficient, examination and books. They also provide funds for the Free Primary Education (FPE) programme. That little money is normally for running the schools, but not to build the primary and secondary schools. I support this Motion and call upon all my colleagues to understand that we only need the national Government to write a letter and say that since they were not doing it anyway, it should go to the people who have been doing it because Harambees have been running the show. So, it just has to go to the people, but now that the Government has committed itself to building Kenya, for example, by providing laptops, that idea is very brilliant because we are going to directly change this country in the years to come using that technology. But the little money that the Ministry of Education now has for infrastructure, we do not even need to debate it. They just need to look at that component in their present Budget. How much money was allocated for improving infrastructure for primary and secondary schools in the whole country? You cannot do it in Nairobi alone, because if you did that--- Sen. Obure and I, know that when we were in the Ministry of Public Works in 2010, the retired President ordered that we needed to come up with Economic Stimulus Projects (ESP) for which the architect and the master is now the current President. This was very brilliant. We were able to build two model primary schools in every constituency to the tune of Kshs3.5 million each and build a school of excellence in every constituency at Kshs30 million each. But the Ministry of Public Works headquartered in Nairobi came up with the drawings and so on. They quickly went to their archives and removed their bible which said that you can only build schools or anything that is Government initiated using stones from Thika. Just imagine putting up a classroom in Lokichoggio in Turkana North using stones all the way from Thika. You were to be arrested if you used anything else. Those buildings were started, but most of them stalled along the way because of the conditions that we could not overcome. Madam Temporary Speaker, in this Motion, we are asking the central Government to give to the counties the money that is there and then the counties now using locally available resources - sand and stones - should build the classrooms, and not to insist on their standards. If we were to give out Kshs100 million to every county per year which comes to Kshs4.7 billion, that Kshs100 million can build so many primary and secondary schools per year as we roll out. This Government that has come up with digital information will get all the credit and send the right signals that we now have leadership that thinks about the people on the ground. I support this Motion. We need to test it because it worked with the ESP programmes. If you walk in the constituencies today, you will find people amazed at what has not been done for the last 50 years. This is going to be revolutionary. We may not need to build new primary or secondary schools by refurbishing the ones that we have. In Singapore, the change that we see, where they jumped from the third world to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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