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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we should ask ourselves why former President Kibaki decided that people should have good salaries. It was one way of ending corruption that was there but today we are back. This is something that we must debate through civic education. If we do not do this, we will have a lot of unrest from different quarters of workers. They will come out because of lack of civic education. Civic education, as the Senator for Kakamega said, has to start in schools. It is within civic education that you would bring programmes on cohesion and governance. It is within civic education that our young people in high schools and universities will understand why, indeed, we decided to have county governments and it is important to respect governance structures. It is within civic education that even our members of society will understand the difference between the Judiciary and the Executive. They will understand Chapter Eight of the Constitution. They have no idea that when we pass Bills, that determines their lives. They understand the Bill of Rights, because it deals with their social rights, but it is important for them to understand why we have a bicameral House. It is because of specifically Chapter Eight of the Constitution; that deals with legislation and how it affects the society. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we talk about public participation, the words that come to mind is civic education. I believe that when the late Michuki started urging people to go to barazas, it was one way of trying to make people understand what the Government was doing. The Governors may not wish to start civic education because they do not want the electorate within the counties to know what is happening – they fear. We know that information is power, so when we talk about civic education, we are talking about empowering people and their minds to understand what is really happening in the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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