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    "content": "as somebody has mentioned here. Sen. Machage says that it is an abusive language, but this does not apply in the village. People know that if you are too old and want to go to school, you can go to an adult education class. This Motion calls upon the Government to come up with clear policy guidelines. I would suggest that when the national Government comes up with these clear guidelines, it should share them with the county governments where the villagers are and so on. The Constitution and the County Governments Act talk about having village and ward administrators. What will be the business of the village administrators if we have villagers who are not educated? We should have centres for adult education so that the syllabus can be synchronized depending on what you want those areas to study. For example, we have people who specialize in crop farming. They can go to school and be trained once in a while. But they can also be taught on how they can do better farming. In the process, they add value to what they know. If you come from a pastoralist region, like where I come from, people like animals. But how can you keep a better, healthy and strong animal that can fetch more money at the time of sale? You can only know that if you have gone through the right education and training. We should even have compulsory education for those people once or twice a week, especially now that we have a policy where the Government is going to disburse some monies to the elderly people. I heard that the Government will pay Kshs2,000 per month to those people who are 65 years old and above. If you are purely illiterate and do not even know how to write your name, how will you know what belongs to you? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will not lose much if we can have almost an affirmative programme that empowers and forces anybody who never went to school to 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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