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    "content": "children as they go through their education to, at least, have time to concentrate on their education. They will also be able to apply their minds to the one course of education knowing that some of the facilities that are required for a good growing up child can be availed. It is at this point that we urge our county governments to also take a share in the responsibility of making sure that such a good dream is realized. We are about to send monies to the counties to the tune of almost Kshs230 billion. If I would just take an example of one of the counties like the Turkana County which will be receiving close to Kshs10 billion, if the county government can only spare a bit of that money to establish or equip some facilities that would assist these young children in their education, it would go along away in serving the course that has been advocated by the Senator. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in summary, as I conclude, Sen. Halima in her final remarks also said something that is very important that we must take to be the topic of this week. This is something that we have to hammer to our people. She said that no matter what facilities we establish or how many schools we put up, without security all this will be useless. That is a point that must be hammered home because it is important. The very nature of nomadic communities is that they move from this area to another area. The most likely event as the nomadic communities move from one area to another is that they will encounter other communities. For example, if a Turkana nomadic clan is moving, they will go the next area where they will encounter the Samburus or the Pokots. That is why we must denounce ethnic profiling across this country. Dividing the people of Kenya against each other along ethnic lines is not good. A Turkana, Rendile, Somali, Kisii, Kikuyu and Kamba must be able to move around this country freely. Kenyans must feel secure where they go to school, do business or live. You can even buy land wherever you want to go. That must be the edict of this country. That cannot be gainsaid. That is why we need to ensure that we provide security in the nomadic areas and across the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I was looking behind, I saw a painting which looks like Lamu County. It cannot also be said that this is a privileged county. I have been to Lamu several times. There are areas there which can be classified as extremely marginalized. You ask yourself, when somebody moots in their minds that there would be violence in a marginalized county like Lamu, does that person first stop to think what will happen to the children of Lamu? Those issues must be brought out clearly."
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