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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the most important issue to be tackled is how to keep these young disadvantaged children in school. You will realize that when you are three years old coming from a disadvantaged background and malnourished, it is unlikely that you will be able to keep the focus to study in class. Therefore, the Bill must be progressive enough to identify areas that we can invest in, for nutrition. I commend Sen. Elachi for bringing up this Bill which also touches on issues to do with nutrition. This will ensure that those children who will attend ECDE centres will also be given the benefit of being able to stay in school healthy. You can imagine a three year old who is hungry. He or she will not have the capacity to go through the rigours of learning. Finally, the morality of the nation must be secured because this nation is dogged with a lot of immoral and unethical conduct from corruption to ethnicity and all the negative vices that we are experiencing. In Kiswahili we say: “ Mti unauwahi ungalimbichi”, to mean that you can be able to deal with a tree when it is not yet dry. This is a good opportunity to inculcate certain value systems in our children. If it were possible, counties should embark on a process of spiritual learning and inculcating positive values so that we rid this country of ethnicity and theft. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, half of us, politicians, joined politics because we were enticed that there is theft in the political sphere. That is why you can see some of us falling by the way side on very meager bribery claims to the tune of Kshs100,000 or Kshs200,000. Some of us are going to the counties seeking contracts in a manner that is arbitrary. We think that it is fashionable to be thieves who live in big houses. This is a country that adores thieves. For example, we would claim that a particular person made it in life when he was a Permanent Secretary. These are people we should be micro-scoping on and telling our children that they are bad examples in life. We must teach our children that humility and sacrifice pays. We should build a culture where an individual must demonstrate consummate humility. Some of the people who have left behind big legacies are not just the wealthy; we have people who have contributed in the fields of science, innovation and development. These are people who have lived humble lives but have scored big in achievements. As a country, we must tell our children who the thieves are and that they must not celebrate them. We must tell them that these people are living in big houses because they stole public funds. We should encourage them to live humbly where they toil and benefit from their own sweat to earn respect. That is why I do not respect most of the people in public service who have homes like the State House. When I visit them, I usually have a feeling of being in a house of theft and their children are born and bred in theft. We must teach them that public service pays well and that you do not need to go to politics because our forefathers are some of the biggest land owners and, therefore, want to become big land thieves in their counties. We are creating little fiefdoms where people are becoming massive thieves. In the next few years, you will find that what used to happen at the advent of Independence in 1963 is going to replicate itself now. They should not be founding fathers of theft in the counties."
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