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    "content": "Look at the investment that we are putting in nursery children and even those in Class One now; we even want to buy laptops for those children. But it will take a very long time for them to develop the vision and ambition that we need to have in Kenya. But there is a pool of people, as has been mentioned in this Motion, that we have not focused on and assisted to train. These are the people who own land, cows and various properties. So, if we zoom in and come up with a policy that can tap into these adult persons and train and open their knowledge, so that they are able to read and write and add value to some of the properties that they have--- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya, being an agricultural country, has a lot of farm produce but we still do farming using rudimentary methods. If we had focused on adult education at the grassroots, starting in the villages, we would not be where we are today in terms of value addition and industrialization. I am talking passionately about this because I know that the long rains have now come and the people who are going to plant are illiterate or semi-literate. They have skills which need to be upgraded through education and training. As mentioned before, some people around Lake Victoria, who never went to school, became fishermen. If we could train them to have some formal kind of education once or twice a week, the output would be improved. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Education has been talking about"
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