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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chelule",
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        "legal_name": "Liza Chelule",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sorry. I thought since I was the only one standing, I could proceed. I want to support this Motion and add some few points. I want to talk about this report. Every time a Committee makes an arrangement to visit counties, I think it should be representing the 47 counties. I would suggest that any time any Committee plans to do county visits, they should plan in such a way that they start by ear-marking which counties they should visit. For example, they should visit the best and the worst counties so that when they come up with a report, it is universal and represents the issues affecting the 47 counties. So, it is my humble request that anytime we do county visits, we come up with a report that will represent all the 47 counties. I want to speak about these meetings. In this report, it is showing the Committee met the governor and the executive officers alone. I would suggest that every time there is a county visit, especially if it is about education, they should also make arrangements to meet the District Education Officers (DEOs) because that is where they can get the real report from the grassroots level. There is the issue of certificates. There are so many children who are suffering at home just because they cannot get their certificates due to non-clearance of school fees. Such an issue should come out in this report. Yesterday, there was a young girl who was denied the opportunity to sit for her examination just because she has not cleared her school fees. We would not like to have such an issue in future. A student should not be denied a right to get his or her certificates due to school fees. It would be good for a student to get his or her certificate because it is a right. So, such things should be coming out very clearly in such a report. I want to support what Sen. Murungi said about integrating social culture in the curriculum so that our children will grow up knowing what is valued in our community. They should grow up knowing what is good and what is not good in our community. So, social culture is very important in the curriculum. We all know that there is free education and I expected to hear about the positive and negative impacts of the free education programme. We all know that there are some negative impacts of free education and also there are positive impacts. This will enable the Senate to come up with ways of addressing those issues. I also expected them to capture the issue of early pregnancies and early marriages because it is very rampant. We all know that young girls have left schools and are going round in many towns doing nothing. Some have been married off while others are taking care of children and yet they are under age. We would like to know about such issues in the report so that we come up with modalities of addressing them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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