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    "content": "weekend and finds neighbours who are parents of such children who have difficulties going to school. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion because I campaigned for the Constitution in the Republic of Kenya without actually taking time to rest. I went to all corners of this country because I saw hope in this Constitution. In this Constitution, I saw that Machakos County and all other counties in this Republic will be able to sit down and say: “This is what the central Government is going to do now. Money will no longer be kept in the central Government, but must be given to counties, and people will have an opportunity to build their institutions.” This Motion talks about infrastructure and resources being devolved. This is the only way forward. Madam Temporary Speaker, Kenya High School and other secondary schools are fully equipped, but I want to give an illustration of certain schools where I come from. When you go to a secondary school you will find that it has only four teachers who teach Form One up to Form Four. I want to agree with my leader here, Sen. Wetangula, that some schools are slightly better in some corners of the country. I cannot say that there is a single school that is adequately equipped in this country, but there are those that are slightly better than the ones which are very much left behind. Schools teaching Biology without laboratories are wasting time. Madam Temporary Speaker, the leaders, starting from the President to the Senators and others, are calling for Kenyans to unite and be one country. But how do you tell somebody who is sitting at the top and another one down there, with absolutely nothing to cater for his needs, to team up, think the same and build a united nation? It is like mixing water and oil. You cannot mix the two. For us to create a united country, we need to allow funds to go to the counties. This is what we did the other day. The Senate looked at the Division of Revenue Bill and decided to balance issues on behalf of Kenyans. We insisted here that we just wanted money to be given to the counties for development. That was changed and the President assented to the Bill with the amounts of money that cannot develop the counties. That was the only opportunity that we had, as Kenyans, to start changing things and say: “There will be a hospital or school in a certain area.” Madam Temporary Speaker, in this financial year, we would have achieved in every county between 20 per cent and 25 per cent development with that allocation. In five years, we would achieve 125 per cent development. That would involve renovating and rehabilitating the existing institutions and building new ones. If we do this in the next ten years, Kenya will be a country that is able to provide what Kenyans need in terms of infrastructure. But if we approach our issues in that manner, the poor will just continue being poor and there will be no chance for improvement. What does that mean? It will be difficult for a child who comes from a poor family to get an opportunity to become the President of this country. By diverting resources to a certain class of people, that means that the poor will never access anything. That opens a door for unscrupulous characters to amass more and more wealth at the expense of the poor people in this country. We will just create a society in this country that will not be controlled easily. We want to have Kenyans with sober minds. We want to prove that together we own this country and share 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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