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    "content": "to go play games in a nearby school, but that was the best performing school in the constituency. The headmaster of that school was one of the best Kiswahili language teachers in country. He was a very disciplined teacher. The students in that school also followed suit; they were very disciplined. I was inspired to make Mbaka Oromo the first model school where we put a lot of CDF money. Eventually, even donors came to invest in it. It is now one of the best schools in terms of equipment in that constituency. We also bought land nearby so that we could have a playfield. I learnt that it was not good enough to equip schools, but we had to invest in good teachers. We must, in all schools, inculcate the culture of learning the traditional way. A lot of things used to happen during the pre-colonial times and soon after Independence. There was a learning process called schools broadcasting which was done by the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) in conjunction with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). I worked for the school broadcast service when I was in Alliance High School and during my years at Makerere University. The good thing in school broadcasting services is that it broadcast lessons to all schools equally. All schools across the Republic knew that at 10.00 a.m, pupils of Standard Four would listen to a history lesson. They all received this education and teachers were keen to ensure that they accessed school broadcast system. We had standardized learning and quality of education nationally. Eventually, during the Nyayo regime, the school broadcast system was abolished for some reason known to the Nyayo Philosophy. These are the kind of things that we must revisit in this country. Fourth, education and land are the two areas of our economy with the highest number of commissions since Independence. You will remember during the colonial times when we had the G.B. Cartland Commission which followed the Mau Mau. At that time, we also had the Bishop Leonard Bicho Report on Education. Since then, Education and Land have had commissions almost every other year. In fact, if you are looking at commissions per capita per sector, education and land must have the highest in this nation. These are areas where we still have a lot of problems. This also shows that no matter what Government is in place, either colonial or Independent, they require a lot of attention. If I were a student doing my PhD – some of these young Senators may want to do that sooner rather than later – I would choose a topic known as: Making Public Policy through National Commissions; A Case Study of Land and Education in Kenya. These are two areas in which you have a fantastic library of information in terms of commissions since Independence. I am using that because if you look at these commissions, you will find that they have a lot of information, especially those on education, dealing with what needs to be done in the education sector. I am wondering whether in all these commissions, all the issues raised feature prominently. However, they must feature now because they affect our education as Senators in terms of quality and investment. Having said that, the fifth thing we must do as a policy and which we used to have as a goal in the NARC Government in the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation (ERSWEC), which I was in charge of as Minister for Planning and 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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