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    "content": "amazing that in a period of less than 20 years, Brazil is a former third world economy selling air buses. I know that every time we fly with the Kenya Airways, we do not know, but we fly in Brazilian aircrafts. We can do it and we must do it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must change the syllabus as requested in this Motion because long gone are the days when people used to take pleasure from speaking “fat English”, Shakespearean English and so on. We should move away from that pursuit of perception to actual knowledge so that instead of emphasizing Shakespeare to our children, we should teach our children the history of science. We want our children to live the life of Albert Einstein at an early age so that they understand who this man was. By the way, Albert Einstein never went to a university. It is important that we change the orientation to education so that the so called village polytechnics should now be centres where even the children who are not very gifted to pass Form Four Examinations and go to the university still have exposure to scientific ways of looking for simple solutions. I would also like to pay tribute to the University of Nairobi, my Alma Mater . I will never forget the late Prof. Maina Mungai, the father of the School of Medicine of the University of Nairobi and Prof. Nelson Wanyama Awori, the surgeon. With every new innovation in the world, they brought it to Nairobi so that when kidney transplants started, Prof. Nelson Awori decided that we must have our own kidney transplant here in Kenya and so have the others followed. When the open heart surgery was done in Europe, within a very short time, you found that appropriate technology had been brought near home. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my own friend and school mate, Dr. Noriah from Eldoret Town, because of self belief, gives an answer to women who have challenges of fertility. He is able to give them a child through test tube babies. That is clear that once we get focused, it can be done in Kenya. I also know that Prof. Stanley Khayinga, a plastic surgeon who was my classmate from Class One up to Form Six in Kakamega High School, up to the medical school, is today one of the finest plastic surgeons who is taking care of the ugly burns that you normally see our children go through or some of our women who do not want to continue carrying ugly burns on their faces. These things can be done locally. I do not want to end before remembering the injustice that our universities have visited on agriculture. I come from a sugar cane growing county and it beats me why at this particular time with all the billions that are there in the sugar industry and with all the billions that Mumias Sugar Company makes even sponsoring football clubs like AFC Leopards, why can they not use some of that money to put into serious soil research so that, deliberately, Mumias can have an answer to what particular species of cane can be grown in a particular soil for us to maximize on varieties and species of cane that are fast growing and that have very high sucrose content so that the farmer can realize the fruits of his work within a shorter period and by maximizing on profit by way of growing cane that has high sucrose content? All this requires nothing else. It does not require the corruption that goes on in all public offices. All it requires is men and women of this Republic who are honest and dedicated and who are prepared to burn the midnight oil doing research. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, is it not a shame that we have so many tractors in Mumias, West Kenya, Butali, Miwani, Muhoroni and Sony sugar factories and yet we do not produce spare parts for our tractors? If only they had not killed retired President Moi’s vision of the 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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