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    "content": "on issues such as these, perhaps, even three schools will be too many. The national Government can put up two or three schools and the county governments can also put up one boarding school in every ward and maintain it. In this country, you will find in a facility, as important as what we are trying to put up, the daughters of Sen. Keter, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, Sen. Boy Juma Boy and the son of Sen. ole Ntutu. It is the rich who then become the poor and start claiming off everything that was never meant for them. So, what are lacking in this country? We lack morality. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, people in positions of influence and authority need to realize and understand that it is immoral for those who are able to pay their way to queue for subsidies meant for those who cannot pay. This happens all over. If you go to the villages, you will find that the chiefs’ children are the ones enjoying bursaries. The former councillors give bursaries to their children and brother’s children. Many of them write to the Members of Parliament and say that those children are destitute, yet they know that they are writing false statements. They end up benefiting from what is meant for the poor. During the Moi days of maziwa ya watoto, you would find a teacher going home carrying a carton of milk meant for children. What we lack is public morality in this country. I think that we need to inculcate in each one of us and know that you will not be a lesser person by grabbing what belongs to your neighbour. That is why we have people in this country who own tracts of land that they do not even know the size of their acreages. When you ask them how they acquired them and what they do with them, they cannot tell you. But they are busy continuously and primitively acquiring more and more. That is immorality in public life. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know of people who go to public offices just to sit there and work for themselves, instead of working for the public. That is lack of public morality. That is what we should be fighting in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, once again, I laud Sen. Halima and I am proud that she has brought this kind of Motion. I hope that we will broaden it to cover the areas that nobody remembers, but are there; marginalized with the poor of the poor, but living next to very rich neighbourhoods who do not care about them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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