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"content": "know that we are ready and willing - and we are going to do it – to help them to make sure that people within his Government do not create new scandals in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, unknown to Kenyans, even as we speak now, as early as less than two months in the life of this Government, we already have the tender for the supply of fertilizer. The fertilizer arrived in Mombasa and it is now being taken to various depots in the country. It is shocking that such a multimillion project and tender can be done through single-sourcing. I am hoping that the President will make sure that the circumstances under which Buseki Enterprises Company was given this tender to transport fertilizer is properly concluded and Kenyans be told what were the special circumstances why one company was given this lucrative tender. Could it be that some people, high and mighty in the system, have got an interest in Buseki Enterprises? Kenyans would like to know. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of education, I want to laud the President for the commitment on keeping all our children in school up to the age of 18. The President has a fantastic idea on information technology. He must accept to be told that this idea is going to come at a cost and, therefore, the implementation matrix must be queried. I am one of the leaders who support the provision of laptops, but we are querying the matrix of that provision because the cost of giving these laptops and free maternal healthcare is estimated at Kshs100 billion per annum. Therefore, we cannot just sit back as loyal friends and members of the President’s party and cheer him without querying the value for the money that is called Kshs100 billion per year. We shall, therefore, be telling the President that his intention to give every primary school child a laptop is wrong. You have to start with constructing classrooms, equipping those classrooms with computers, training at least two teachers in every primary school and let the children go and learn. I am afraid that hon. Ruto, who happens to be from my generation, might be seeing the children in his family who by the way, look and grow like the children in my family, and think that, that is the prototype of the Kenyan child. They are not. If you give the children in Ikolomani those laptops they will be grateful. However, the fathers of those children spend their days hundreds of metres down the ground, prospecting for gold. If they go home and find there are laptops worth tens of thousands of shillings in the house, they will sell them. They are not bad people, but because it is an easy way of getting money, they will sell them. People who want these computers are many and they will buy them. We want President Uhuru Kenyatta to exercise something we call in management “Appropropriate Technology”. The appropriate technology is not to give every child a laptop, but to create a conducive learning environment. I listened to the Deputy President at Kasarani and he was very passionate. He said something which I would like Kenyans to remember. That besides the many reasons they came together with the President Uhuru to form this Government, the major one was because they did not want members of their communities in the Rift Valley to fight again. I thought that was fantastic and we all cheered at the stadium. But amazingly, when the President made his Address to us, he never mentioned the issue of IDPs. He should have gone to great lengths to tell us his programme on how he will settle the IDPS who are actually there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, while still on this issue of IDPs, if it is true that the Deputy President believes that with him working with the President, then that is the solution to 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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