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"content": ". They told us there is a little bush which serves as the boys’ toilets. When we do this, we cause more harm than just the mistreatment of those children. These are children who will grow up believing that it is okay to use a bush as a toilet. After all, that is the way they were brought up. That is what they see and you cannot blame them for thinking like that. It is the standards that we, as a nation, have set for our little children. That is why I am saying it is pathetic. I have never seen a situation where in a household, the older children are given food by the mother before the little babies. So, we must ask ourselves, as a nation, as a family called Kenya, why then we should be feeding the 15 year old children before we feed the 4 year old children. When you see the kind of change occurring across the country, we now understand why there are county governments, we now understand why this House is so important and so crucial for the survival of all those children. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other area has to do with polytechnics. We started a process of emphasizing to the various counties the need to specialize in certain areas. Prior to those meetings, every place we went to was doing exactly the same thing as the other one. We had dress-making in Kisumu, Nyeri and Mombasa counties. We also had other things that were common across. It is only in Kakamega County where we 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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