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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "content": "need to use our places to encourage families to bring values back to the way we bring up our children; to remind religious institutions in all the religions that we are under duty to teach our children values; to remind, especially those that are charged with the responsibility of raising children in public primary schools, we have a very soft spot for public primary schools. If we lose the public primary schools, we have lost Kenya. That is why we have used every opportunity to tell hon. Members to use CDF money to escalate and invest in public primary schools. I do not say it to pat my back but I spend over 70 per cent of my CDF money on public primary schools in my constituency. The rest, almost the entire amount, goes to the secondary schools. If we want to regain Kenya and get back our values, we must come back to the families. We must come back to the religious institutions. We must come back to our centres of learning. We must also remind the media - because the media is a very key instrument of socialisation and it influences how people think - electronic, online and print, to be more responsible in what we make available to our children. I come back to where I started, we are losing this country. We might grow the economy and grow the GDP yet find ourselves with an invisible enemy called a country that has no values. If we have no values, it does not matter what our GDP is; we have no country and no future. We have put a lot of this money in Parliament, the Judiciary, the Auditor-General’s Office and so on. As I finish, I want to thank hon. Members again for giving us the opportunity to re-think our position. I know that there were strong emotions yesterday and as I said, that is as it should be. I want to thank hon. (Eng.) Gumbo and those he came with; hon. Midiwo and everybody else. It is your right to take us on and to remind us so that we do things right. What I do not know and I know all of us are wrestling with this is what we are going to do with validating the importance of public hearings. It is very difficult to imagine a situation where a Committee of this House goes out fulfilling its constitutional and legal mandate, takes on public hearings from 14 counties and there is nothing to show for it. That is a question we need to answer. What do we do with public hearings? What are they for? Is it just an academic exercise if there is nothing to show for it after we have been through it? When the National Treasury does its public hearings, we want to see what comes out. We said as much in my report but that may be a question for another day. Suffice to say, for now we have been helped by this House, I believe to make the right decisions to reverse these allocations so that the entire amount goes to a place that would be of greater help to this country. I beg to move. Thank you."
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