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    "id": 383562,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "for those who do not understand Kiswahili language, refers to rich people. Madam Temporary Speaker, the children of rich people in the urban areas and in cities go to school at 7.00 a.m. from Mondays to Fridays; on Saturday they are in school, half of Sunday they are in school, the teachers are teaching them and by the time when they are in Standard Eight and it is May, they are through with the syllabus; the rest is revision to wait for examinations. The same happens to the Form Four students. But in the countryside, children go to do biology examinations and yet, they have never seen a laboratory. They go to sit for chemistry examinations, but they have never seen a test tube in their lives. Yet, they will compete in the same national examination. How can you take unequal forces, put them together and say “now, compete fairly?” That is what devolution is here for. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am very happy with the Senate because Senators have distinguished themselves as men and women of focus; they are not embroiled in petty things. They are focusing on how to empower the ordinary man and woman in the counties. Five years down the line, history will judge this Senate very harshly if, at the end of our first term, we shall not have created some visible levels of equity in our society, particularly in education, and infrastructure, especially in roads and water provision. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you represent a rural constituency like I did for the last many years and hon. Senators like Hargura who come from the most marginalized areas understand this, you find a school has Standard One to Standard Eight and yet the entire school has only two teachers from the TSC. At the end of the day, they must face the same exam with children from privileged schools. We are building the most unequal society and that is so dangerous for our future. You go to some schools and you find that they have so many teachers; some teachers sit knitting from morning to evening while in other schools, there are no teachers."
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