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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all of us have a responsibility to conserve our forests. Those people were not living in the forests, but in their farms that were gazetted by the Government. Therefore, they had the right to be there, the way some people are also living near Kakamega Forest, where my colleague, Sen. Khalwale, comes from. Where we come from, we value forests. I know that Sen. Khalwale also values forest because of his culture. I want to assure him that the Jubilee Government and I also value forests. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having said that, I want to talk about some few issues. We cannot wait until all the primary schools we have in Kenya have electricity. It is like telling the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) that as they set the examinations, they should put in mind the fact that there are certain schools which do not have electricity. When the KNEC sets examinations, they set examinations for all pupils in Standard Eight whether in private or public schools or whether your school is well equipped or not. To me, we should be positive minded. If we want to get this country to the next level, we should agree on the issue of the laptops. I know for sure that through the economic stimulus package which we had when the current President was the Minister for Finance, each constituency got a good health facility and school. For example, in my county, I have Kabianga Health Centre which is good besides two girls’ schools; Chepkoton and Chetuiyet. I think other colleagues who were in that Parliament can attest to that. There must be a beginning. When he started that project, so many people thought that it would not succeed, but it succeeded although there was a bit of a problem in terms of implementation. Now that we have a year and the 100 days, I think it will be implemented well. 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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