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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. Let me start by congratulating this Committee. First, I congratulate them for their tour to the five counties, the manner in which the Mover has moved the Motion and for the way the able Chair has seconded. This is what we have been urging Committees to do instead of travelling overseas benchmarking in countries that are already developed and which have no relevance to us. We have been urging our Committees to visit our own institutions and to add value like this Committee has done. I have heard the Chair say that they plan to visit all the 47 counties. That was my first agenda. Please, Mr. Chairman, ensure that you give us reports of all the 47 counties so that we are educated about the status of education and other facilities of education that are there throughout the country. I heard the story of the cockroaches and the hardships that the Committee went through particularly in Tana River. I was a District Commissioner there, from 1976 to 1978. I am saddened to hear that so many years after, there has been no improvement. But this goes to confirm what we have all been saying here; that marginalization of many counties has gone on and it is real. It goes on even today. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Mover of the Motion has dwelt on the issue of 51 years since we got Independence and we are still there. Soon it is going to be 52 years and more. I think that it is sad that this country can have the kind of facilities that are contained in this Report. Last week, we passed a Motion here urging the Government to release certificates withheld by schools. I was very encouraged by the President’s speech or statement when he was in Kisii; that from now onwards there will be no examination fees for Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate for Secondary Education (KCSE). If the Government can waive examination fees for everybody, why can it not start by releasing the certificates which have been held for ten years? I am sure that the President will listen if he is made aware. Just as he is giving all these facilities, there is a big problem, of these certificates, that he is leaving behind. I hope that they can be released very soon. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, over the weekend I attended some funeral and one lady came running to me and said: “Can I now go for my son’s certificate, because I heard that"
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