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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we talk of marginalization we must also look at people who have suffered historical disadvantages and injustices. So, with these kinds of facilities available, I have no doubt whatsoever that we will be correcting an imbalance that has been visited on the children of this country. But more important, we will actually be enforcing the constitutional provisions that require that every child has a right to education. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with Sen. Kagwe when he talked about “compulsory must be compulsory and have attendant sanctions and penalties for those who do not do it.” If you go to the coffee farms of Kiambu, you will find children instead of being in school, busy plucking coffee. In a situation like that, even the owner of the coffee farm should be penalized and prosecuted. One, for employing child labour, two, for luring children out of school and three, for destroying a future generation. I would want to see this kind of draconian measures taken because they will help in shaping the future of our country. I do not quite agree with Sen. Kagwe, that people who are educated are unlikely to make mistakes. In fact, the most pernicious, vicious and worst criminals who have visited untold hardship on humanity have been very well educated people. For example, Hitler was a university graduate. Napoleon Bonaparte was also a university graduate. There is also Milosevic of Yugoslavia and Radovan Karadzic who was a medical doctor. All these people have gone to school properly. However, they ended up plunging the country into chaos, the way the Jubilee Government is trying to do to our country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, the leadership of the Jubilee Government is educated, but look at what they are doing to Kenyans. Do you imagine that an educated leader can practice tribalism the way that we are seeing in this country?"
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