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    "content": "from water borne diseases, mainly bacterial and protozoan infections all of which can be taken care of by antibiotics. A few of them die from diseases like hepatitis and typhoid fever. Then we have those who die from vector borne diseases like malaria. I am sure when Sen. (Prof.) Lesan and I form our Government, we will ensure that the only thing that we can give Kenyans is to eradicate malaria the way they did it in Brazil. It is quite possible. Having realized that it is this easy, as we support this Motion, I want us to be realistic. Even if we make the money available, who is going to be responsible? The Government disburses money to counties and that money is messed up by the Provincial Administration. We have assistant chiefs who seek bribes from these old persons. They deduct the little money that they are given. In some cases, an old man or an old woman who is on this particular welfare fund, the grandchildren have migrated from their homes to the grandmother’s home where there is some little money so that when the child is chased away from school for school fees, they then go to get the money from their grandfathers or grandmothers. So, the aged end up not using this money to take care of themselves but to educate, feed and clothe those children. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the problem will not be solved by focusing on the old people alone. The problem will also be solved by addressing the 42.4 per cent Kenyans who are below the age of 25 years. The Government must have a programme of educating them. I do not know what is going on in Kenya. Today, it is easier for you to go for a parallel degree in all our universities than to go and attend school from Form One to Form Four at Alliance High School. Even Kakamega High School where I schooled, they are asking for Kshs80,000 per year. Now our children have run away from our national schools. I have a school I built as a Member of Parliament; Shikunga High School, and it is a remarkable school. I went there and found that from the village, 30 students had been admitted, but only six of them reported. The other ones ran away because they cannot afford school fees. The problem is that serious. Unfortunately, some of our leaders and not many of you have the big man, rich man mindset so that you feel that if you speak to the issues that affect the poor, you will give the impression that you are either small minded or you have the mindset of the poor. We speak to these issues because the majority of the Kenyans are going through these problems. Ooh President Uhuru, why do you not lower the school fees in national schools so that the children who come from the kind of background some of us came from can also have an opportunity one day of coming to this Senate and advancing the frontier of good governance of the Republic of Kenya? I support."
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