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    "content": "take this country, but we cannot do it when you leave the health sector to individuals. My own father would have died a long time ago if I was not a Member of Parliament. He has a problem with his heart, diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer. He is still alive 25 years after retiring from the national Government. He has an NHIF card that cannot help him. How many people are lucky to have sons who are Members of Parliament or Senators? We must think of this country as one. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this issue of information technology for Standard One pupils is a big joke; I am sorry to say so. First of all, in my Mbita Constituency, I have been using over Kshs90 million from the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) every year to build classrooms, but I still have a shortage of thousands of classrooms. Even when you go to those classrooms which we have tried to improve, they are still very dusty. There are no desks and there is no food. I understand that you will be giving them milk. I hope that, that is not also another business venture. Let us talk of first things first. It is not computers. I have a phone here which has functions which I do not even use, because I am illiterate about most of these things. Yes, I am a graduate, Senator and Member of Parliament of long standing. You want to joke around with young people who will not even know whether to place the laptops because they do not have desks. There are teachers who do not even know what a mouse is. Where will you keep them? Even keeping books is a problem because we do not have stores in our primary schools. Why do we not even start with Form One or university students who call me everyday saying: “Please, I am doing research. Give me, at least, Kshs30,000, so that I can buy a laptop.” I have bought two already and will not buy anymore. Why do you not give them to university students because they need them badly for research? Is somebody doing some business in this country with them? One million pupils in Standard One, at Kshs10,000 comes to Kshs10 billion. If you give us that money to do classrooms, we will be very happy in five years. Why are we excited about sexy things which mean nothing? Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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