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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Haji",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Mohammed Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wholeheartedly support this Motion because it affects my county and other counties. I also want to congratulate the Mover of the Motion, my brother. I read in the newspapers today that he has been elected to be the Chairperson for the Committee on Education. I think the Committee is very relevant to his area and there is no doubt that he will deliver the mandate given to him to the whole country. Adult education is very important in the marginalized areas where people are not well educated. Those who are educated are people who also failed in their examinations; both in the primary and secondary levels. We know that education is a continuous process and, therefore, coming up with a policy of adult education is very important for us to achieve the 2030 Vision of increasing our literacy level. As some of the speakers said, the issue of external trade by illiterate people is out of the question. People who do small businesses globally, fail at times because they do not know their profit margins after selling their commodities or goods. Some of them do not even know how to do book keeping. Even if they were to open accounts at the banks, they would be at the mercy of the bank clerks who would be asking them to sign certain areas without knowing the amounts withdrawn. This way, you find a lot of cheating going on in the accounts of such people. Apart from streamlining the process of employment and also giving programmes to adult education officers, as one of the Speaker said here, most of the rural areas have illiterate people who tend to listen to FM stations. Sen. Karaba should also articulate 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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