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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Elmi",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, I would like to congratulate hon. Abdullahi for bringing this Motion. As he has stated, it looks like the cost has gone almost tenfold yet he is proposing only three times. The proposal to increase it to Kshs3,060 is reasonable. We hope that the Executive as the other arm of the Government will take this Motion seriously and even before we bring a Bill, they will implement it. A lot has been said as to why this is necessary. There is a disaster, a national security disaster in the making in the North Eastern region of this country. This is for two reasons. One, it is because this amount of money is not enough and two, because there are no teachers. There is a shortage of over 2,000 teachers in that region. So, we are producing annually children who have gone through primary school, who when they go to secondary school, get “Ds” and below; thousands of them. We know the challenge that we have with our neighbours, namely, the Al Shabaab . So, the question is: When you get a “D” minus or an E because teachers are not available, what happens? We know the two most important ingredients for children to learn are the teachers, materials and supervision. I will give you a simple example of Wajir County, which is lacking over 700 teachers. There is only one Inspector of Schools in the whole county. A county that is equal to the size of Central, Western and Nyanza counties and moreso there is no vehicle. So, there is no supervision. There are no teachers and the money for materials is not there. What do you expect? So, when you see Mandera, Wajir and Isiolo counties at the bottom, science has proved that there is no superiority across the world and across the races in terms of people being clever than others. This country must ask itself for how long we will produce children that will not get jobs, who have left their nomadic ways of life and therefore, cannot fit into looking after the animals. Are we not creating the AlShabaab of tomorrow? I declare and say it here that what we have in that region is a national disaster for insecurity. Before we reach the inequality of this country, we must have one country if we are going to move forward. One other thing is that equality is good for everybody. Our country is becoming more and more unequal. The elites of this country are living a lie and the life of a Kenyan is worth Kshs50. somebody killed his wife because of Kshs50. It is a country where children from certain regions are not getting the education that they require; where roads do not exist and we have a whole region without tarmac and you expect this country to move forward! We keep talking of taking this country to the next level, but I am sorry, it will not happen. It is a fact of life. Look at the history of all the countries that have done well and where the quality of life of the citizens is good and you will realise that these are countries that have dialogued and made sure that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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