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    "content": "Ministry of Health. I hope the President, guided by his policy on health, will look at this issue. Maybe I will have an opportunity to go to Nyamira and officially open that hospital. As I speak now, that hospital does not have a title deed. It is lacking so many things. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, I am an educationist. I have had an opportunity to do social work in terms of education. I have traversed many schools in Gusii land and its environs. I have seen my colleagues dwell on the issue of laptops. That is a Government policy. Let us give him and his Government the benefit of doubt. I concur with my colleagues who have just said that this is something that can be done in a tailor-made form. Let it be even for cartoons for those children in Standard One. There is no problem with that as long as he focuses on the long-term plan for education. Where I come from there has been a lot of interference from the church on the issue of education. I hope that the new Government will address the issues of the churches which sponsor some schools and insist on appointing principals. That is an issue which needs to be addressed. As they are developing these issues at the county level, I hope that they will work closely with the Governors and the educational sector. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue that I would like to address is agriculture. I have heard my colleague, Prof. Lonyangapuo, speak about the rains and how fertilizer was delivered. Gusiiland is historically known as the “bathroom” of God. There is plenty of rain. We need to harvest rain water. I hope that this Government will have an opportunity to harvest water. As I speak now, there is a lot of water that is going to waste. It has affected the environment. Although the Government is so casual in its approach on agriculture, it will have mechanisms under the new Cabinet Secretaries who will be appointed, so that some of us can walk to their offices and challenge them to have better policies on agriculture. The tea sector has also been affected greatly in the so-called soko huru. Soko huru affects the mainstream tea industry in the region. There are some policies which were put in place in the past to address this issue. I hope that the new Government will put in place mechanisms to ensure that those who participate in the soko huru really give the farmers what is due to them. It has affected factories which are running on a shortage. It does not have the capacity to deal with the inferior quality of tea which goes to the factories. This is an issue that I will need the Government to address. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the President spoke candidly about building of stadia. I come from a region where we specialize in athletics. Those stadia may not really assist us, but we would like the Government to set up high-altitude training centres, like the ones that we have in Iten. I have had an opportunity to be a consultant in the athletics sector. It is also known historically that the Kisiis and Kalenjins are the best athletes in this country. We hope that the Government will also deal with issues of football and indoor games. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the President’s Address, nothing much has been said about the foreign policy. I have had opportunity to look at the historical factors in the Kenyan foreign policy documents. We do not have a policy paper which is so clear on how we address some of these issues. This will assist us greatly in addressing the issues of geopolitics. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of security has been really dealt with by my colleagues. We have a small issue on the Borabu-Sotik border and my friend, the 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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