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    "content": "last a lady who is the Secretary of Foreign Affairs which is one of the leading Ministries. It is one of the leading Ministries. We, women, do not like to be called last. We also want to lead the pack. We thank the President and the Deputy President for appointing a lady to the Foreign Ministry, which is a high position. One of the issues that the President has underlined here, for instance, water, which my colleagues have spoken about, Ministries concerned will start work immediately. They will start work on dams and pans. That means that there will be money to do that work. He did not, at that moment, have to say how much money he will put because that comes from the Treasury. He said that is a priority. He also touched on electricity supply for every part of this country. With regard to the laptops, I support that fully. Our children and even the child in Wajir or whichever place they are, should be exposed early to technology. We are living in a global world where competition is very stiff. We want those children to go to Harvard and other countries for education. When they go out there and are left behind because it is the first time they are seeing such gadgets, I think this is not fair. Exposing them to technology does not mean that we have to put in a lot of money. We have been told by experts that the laptops for schools can come very cheaply. They are not like the ones we work with in the offices. Again, if they are assembled here as the President said, that the parts will be brought so that they are assembled here, that will create like 20,000 jobs. We keep on talking about jobs but we do not say how we plan to create these jobs. What is wrong with our Standard One pupils being exposed to whatever you may call toys? I call them laptops of that standard. These are not toys. By the time children go to Standard One, they already know how to read and write because they have already gone through nursery school. I want us to enact a law so that the CDF can be used properly. We have seen that in areas where the CDF is used well, many classrooms and health centres are built. As a Minister for Health, I opened many health centres and, in fact, we built a model health centre in every constituency to promote maternal health. This is possible and now that we have the county governments which we will oversee, many have been invited severally by the President to join the National Government in development and that is what they will do."
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