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"content": "People are taught to abhor corruption and not just in the public sector. That is why you see the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a private company, whose company has made losses committing suicide if they are suspected to be corrupt or if there are things they could have done to save the company and they did not do. That is self enforcement. That starts very early in the indoctrination of people; to love their country and to respect themselves. Of course, that is an extreme measure where people commit suicide if they are suspected of engaging in corruption. You will find a judge or even a Minister who has committed suicide. That is one extreme. However, there is another extreme that we have to drag you out of a public office. You know very well that you have looted, you been cornered, the evidence is glaring, but you will not budge until we drag you through the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC), haul you to court and prove you. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we should use education systems to transform our country. If there is one thing that can transform Kenya, then it is education, especially in the early years. You should teach children that at the coast, we have different communities and that forms the history of Kenya. You should show them where we came from and tell them that at one time, we were colonized. Show them how people of this country fought to liberate the country. Some people, university graduates, even Senators here, probably, do not know who the first Minister for Education was in this country. We have forgotten and we have no history. People with no history are people going nowhere. Mr. Temporary Speaker, the education system is a great shaper of civilization. It can stop corruption, it can help us solve tribal animosity, it can help us solve leadership problems and help us get solutions. So, instead of wasting time--- I am talking about the curriculum where we tell small girls about the reproductive system of a man and this child is in Class five and they draw body organs. When my daughter comes home from a Standard Seven class and has diagrams of the nakedness of men and women which is irrelevant and obscene, how do I even help that child to do that homework? Supposing the mother has travelled and I am the only one with my daughter, what do I do? I cannot help her! I am an African man. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are saying that curriculum- I hope that through the Committee on Education - we will go beyond Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) and start addressing primary and secondary school curriculum because we are wasting time with complex chemical formulas - Milky Way - where we teach children about the planets. That is a complication. Why should they know about astronomy? What for? Teach them about Kenya. Teach them about Jomo Kenyatta and Dedan Kimathi wa Ciuri, Mekatilili wa Menza, Elijah Masinde, about the first African headmaster of Alliance High School, about the first Kenyan to get a Doctorate of Philosophy (PHD), about all the Ministers and Attorney-Generals that we have had in this country, about great Senators and about our country. This way, we can inculcate the right values through the curriculum. Mr. Temporary Speaker, because of time, I want to say that the school feeding programmes must be compulsory especially for nursery school children. You cannot send young boys and girls especially in the rural areas to school and expect them to stay on empty stomachs the whole day and then expect them to love school. Scientists tell us that that the first two or three years of school, that is where the major formations of human being are made. 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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