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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion by Sen. Halima. As has been said by my colleague, Sen. (Dr.) Zani, Sen. Halima represents the diversity of this country. She represents precisely what she has presented to this House. She is a young Senator and also from the pastoralist community. A week ago, I had the honour of visiting Turkana County. I stayed there for five days in the company of my fellow Senators and the Speaker of the Senate. I also had the privilege of being taken around, entertained, visiting schools and so on. I had firsthand experience of how the pastoralist communities live and what the children have to bear and live through in their daily lives. I remember visiting a cultural event that was entertaining us in various folk songs. In that cultural activity, some of the performers were young school children. Some of them as young as eight years from the lower classes, both boys and girls. As the young children were performing there, as a parent you could not fail to see in their faces messages of the kind of life they live. Across this House, just in front of me, there is a big painting that depicts the kind of life that pastoralist communities live through. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in asking that the national Government establishes boarding facilities within the counties of the pastoralist communities, that is a very noble and useful request. The first and most notable quality or aspect of living in pastoralist communities is poverty. Poverty is almost identical with the pastoralist communities. If one imagines a student who goes to a boarding school in Nairobi and one who goes to a boarding school in Wajir or in Turkana, the difference in the facilities and life experiences, the difference in the prospects of those two students as they go through life in the same country is wide and overwhelming. As has been said by some of my colleagues here, many students who bear the brunt of that poverty in the pastoralist communities are young girls. By establishing boarding facilities in the pastoralist communities and expanding to other marginalized communities would help these young 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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