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    "content": "head on. It does not cost a lot of money. These are going to be tailor-made laptops. These will not be ordinary laptops. They may cost between Kshs10,000 and Kshs15,000. There will be many programmes for children. How much money have we lost in the course of running our business and corruption related issues? If we try this and find that it is not working, we will change our direction. In the same vein, I am expecting that the Government will employ enough teachers. In West Pokot, for example, we have a shortage of 1,420 primary school teachers. Even with that challenge, we managed to become position nine out of 47 counties. We have a shortage of over 600 secondary school teachers and yet we came second last year. I want to thank the teachers and the community for working hard despite all the problems and challenges in that region. I also want to mention that in line with the successes that we saw, some schools did well in our county. Everybody got a Grade A in Mathematics. Somebody asked how a school can perform like that in such a far-flung and marginalized county. So, they refused to give the boys marks and instead awarded them a Y or cancelled their results. Some of these problems arise because we do not have enough teachers. So, people imagine that if something great comes from that place, then it is not genuine. The President talked about water and electricity. You know that we share a river called River Swam with Turkana County. It gives a lot of water which also goes to KenGen Turkwel Generating Plant. As I speak to you, we have a power line in Pokot called a low voltage line or single phase in the entire county. We produce almost 18 per cent of the power used in the Republic of Kenya. I do not think that there is any in Turkana. The challenge I have is, where there is a resource, local people do not benefit from it. I am calling upon the new Government, since we have a lot of expectation, we should see the benefits. Sometimes we have insecurity issues where people steal cows in Turkana and Pokot, but KenGen should not use that excuse to migrate from Turkwel. I have never seen a government that migrates from her country just because some two or three people are fighting. This has become like drama when people see that we are able to run a power plant using a computer in Nairobi. They also hear that people are employed in the name of Turkwel and posted elsewhere. I have hope that this will be corrected as I come in as the Senator of that region. Mr. Speaker, Sir, today, some of the people of Tana River County, Budalangi and parts of Nyanza are now swimming. Their houses have been submerged. The Government should immediately address this problem, so that we can harvest water for use next year."
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