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    "content": "The officers in charge of implementation of this programme should ensure equal distribution of the same, so that our country can move at the same pace. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I note with a lot of satisfaction that the President talked about the implementation of the free primary school education. This was started by the previous Government and the current Government is implementing it. However, there is a big challenge in the pastoralist areas. When we are saying free primary school education and we have challenges like hunger, drought, cattle rustling and a number of cocktail of problems that are associated with these, children in some counties are not enjoying free primary school education. Therefore, I call upon the Government and the county governments to come up with specialized and tailormade strategy on how to implement the free primary school education, for example, building boarding schools rather than having nomadic ones that are mobile in some pastoralist region. I know if we can build boarding primary schools and avail teachers and teaching equipment that are required, the effects of free primary education will be actualized even in the secondary schools. We need to have equal distribution of what we have started as a Government so that it is felt everywhere. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President talked about the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line and said that over 600 Kilometres have been covered but the challenge, which I hope the relevant Ministry is looking at keenly, is whether the Government is implementing this SGR and very soon the locomotives are going to be on it. What do we do with lorries and their owners who have invested heavily into this business? At the same time that this is being done, we should bring these people on board and see how their losses can be minimized because some of them end up stalling these projects that we have around when it comes into frution. We talk of the Lamu Port Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) and the ambitious plans that are there. We are hearing little of LAPSSET nowadays but it was very pronounced and prominent in the previous Government. We want it to be upped, so that the road from Lamu to Isiolo - we were talking of a city. Suppose that city had been built by now, some of the problems that have been in Mandera, Turkana, Pokot and elsewhere, some of these people would have felt and witnessed the effect of the changes and working in the current world. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I see some counties have been mentioned, like Sen. Billow said yesterday, as being ethnic. It says leaders have been fighting over some counties and that they are ethnic. This Senate has a big challenge; it is not Narok, Embu, Mandera and Marsarbit alone that have these challenges, it is almost in every county. When we were forming these devolved units, the 30 per cent rule that was supposed to be subjected to employment in every county has failed. It is being implemented in the national Government. In some counties, people can even talk in their vernacular. This is a tragedy because you cannot have people running business like that yet we belong to the same country. We should come up with a law that compels every county to employ people from all the other 46 counties, so that we have a mixture of everybody. I was very happy to learn that the Head of State gave an apology and mentioned that there would be compensation or some payment to some people that were affected like the Wagalla Massacre. There was an infamous operation that was conducted in 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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