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    "id": 397766,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me the chance to contribute to this very crucial Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are debating this Motion 50 years after Independence. Considering what is happening in the world today, you will note that without technology of this kind, any country will be regarded as backward. That is the position that we are in already. Since the time we were elected to this august House, we have visited many countries. When we compare those countries with what is here, we see Kenya as a backward country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have a lot of interest in education and attended quite a number of seminars in the world. There is one seminar that I attended in Lithuania. We were discussing about corruption in education. What we learnt was that corruption is not only when it is said to involve money or transaction of goods. We discussed corruption in education as the key thing. There is corruption in the education sector. Out of our discussions, we found out that some cadre of pupils or students receive different education from the rest because they are more informed in technology than others. That will make that set of students ahead of others. Even to date, we have quite a number of schools in the country, where students from Form One to Form Four have never seen a computer. We also have certain schools in Kenya where a computer is a normal tool. When they get to higher levels of education, for example, the university, students from such schools will always be ahead, while those who have never seen computers will be assumed to be learning. This is corruption. Corruption in education is when you corrupt the minds of the youths. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this kind of corruption can only be eliminated by the introduction of such technology in the name of fibre connectivity to various county governments. That will ensure that such connections reach schools in the neighbourhood, colleges, hospitals, police stations and even polling stations. This connection will pave way for the introduction of software, where computer labs can be used as teaching rooms. A school in Turkana can receive the same software like a school in Nairobi. For example, whatever Lenana School is teaching, it can be connected to schools in Turkana, Lodwar and Mandera without sending many teachers in schools. When this infrastructure is developed in our country, I am sure even learning and teaching will be very easy and cheap. Every student will receive the same kind of material through this fibre connectivity. 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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