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    "content": "Recently, he told me that he taught a person who looked distinctly older than he looked and I was very impressed. I want to start with where Sen. Elachi has left. Looking at Schedule Four of the Constitution, the Mover of the Motion has placed it where it belongs. The more you read the Constitution, the more you will think we could have done better. The counties are only entrusted with FPE, village polytechnics, art and craft centres and childcare facilities. When you move to the national Government, you will find that rightly so, it has an educational policy, standards, curriculum, examinations and the granting of university charters. We have moved on to load to the national Government what should have been distinctly county Government responsibilities in No.16 of the Fourth Schedule. We have given them universities; that is fine because they are educational institutions. We have also given them tertiary institutions and other institutions of research and those of higher learning and primary schools, special education and secondary schools. Recently, when the Kenya Certificate of Secondary (KCSE) examinations results came out, I released that our county had done very poorly. Great schools like Kamusinga that had always enjoyed top ten slipped to number 34. Lugulu Girls School that had always enjoyed top ten slipped to past 100. Others like Cardinal Otunga, Kibabii and Bungoma High School and others that had been top have gone down. I initiated a county leadership group meeting and the Governor and his County Executive in charge of Education said that was not their function and there was very little that they could do. They said they had no resources for it and nothing for it. I then asked myself why a single stream school in Nyandarua County should be a national function. This should be left to the county to provide resources and teachers because the entire intake is done from counties. Back to the Motion; successive governments in Kenya have completely neglected adult education. That is why we treated adult education as part of culture. That is why it is heaped together with culture and women issues. This had nothing to do with culture, but everything to do with literacy and education. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you have read some books, you will remember a book called Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams. A son in the mines in Johannesburg writes a letter to his parents. His parents have to walk five kilometres to look for somebody to read the letter for them. They went to a man called Omfundi, which means a teacher in Zulu, who read the letter and spills all the family secrets. A letter is very personal, but they had to carry it and walk for five kilometres for somebody to read or misread it for you, for that matter. Adult education was granted on the philosophy that we were not taking Maruge to school so that he can get a job. We were creating functional literacy so that a mother can read a prescription from a doctor on how to administer medicine to her child even if she did not go to school. A mother who starts business does not have to look for a village boy to say; niandikie hapa nipeleke pesa kwa benki . The woman should walk to the bank and bank her money. An old man who has a small business should receive a statement from the bank, go through it and go back to the manager and ask what Debit (DR) and Credit (CR) mean. When they go to borrow money from the bank, they do not have to go with someone from the village to help them sign the loan form so that they go back to 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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