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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a good Motion. The issue of boarding facilities is good, especially for the girl child. I do not think the boys are doing any better in these places. As much as I am very sympathetic to the course of the girl child, I do not think in these places boys are doing any better. So, why can we not put up boarding schools for all children? The numbers also is an issue. It says three per ward; I do not know what mathematics Sen. Halima used. I have never known her to be a mathematician anyway. Assuming she is one, I do not know what mathematics or economics she used to arrive at that figure of three schools per ward. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this country will never know peace and prosperity until we confront the ogre and the demon of marginalization. You can preach until cows come home on how Kenya is one country, how we have one flag, how we have one national anthem or how we have one map, but until every Kenyan feels like they are being treated like fellow Kenyans elsewhere, we will continue having divisions, skirmishes, violence, hatred and so on. Devolution was crafted to salvage our country from disintegration. In fact, even as we talk about entrenching devolution, I am persuaded that we need to make devolution a national security issue. This is the only thing that will prevent this country from going to chaos. All said and done, the reason Kenyans are angry at each other is because they feel part “x” has been treated differently from part “y”. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a wonderful Motion and I hope it can be replicated in other ways to entrench and equalize counties in terms of health, agriculture and other things that can bring socio-economic transformation in our country and bring equality and dignity to all Kenyans. Having said that, I have no problem with retaining the girls as the subject matter, however, I have a problem with ASAL area. This is general. In fact, it starts by saying 80 per cent of Kenya is arid. I think we should say that we should have these boarding schools in the whole country which I do not think is a good way to go. Just specify. It is not difficult to convince colleagues about Turkana, Mandera, Isiolo and so on. We know them. We can even use data about the facilities available in the counties and have a cut off line where if you do not have this threshold of facilities for girls then you do not qualify or otherwise. With those very many remarks, I want to say that I totally support this Motion wholeheartedly. When the counties are defined, do not forget Tharaka Nithi County."
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