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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on a serious note, I want us to face it and say that the children who are out of school today are children of the poor. The rich and the bourgeoisie of north eastern region know where their children are. Therefore, those poor parents in north eastern region of Kenya through their distinguished Senator have their only hope on this Senate. We must do everything possible to ensure that we push this Government, that seems to be so insensitive to the Bill of Rights, so that our children may go back to school. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what a shame that children are out of school in a country where thousands of trained teachers remain unemployed? Those teachers are only waiting to be posted to north eastern region. What a shame that this is happening in a country that has exported thousands of teachers who are developing education elsewhere in the continent of Africa? Our teachers are in Botswana teaching children, same as in South Sudan. The teachers who are in Rwanda and Burundi are Kenyan nationals. We must not allow it. We must ask the Government to do the simple thing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, because you are a doctor of medicine, you know the meaning of inaccurate diagnosis. The Government should make a proper diagnosis. In this case, the diagnosis is simple, which is that teachers have refused to go to north eastern because of insecurity. If the Government fixes security in north eastern region, all our teachers will flock back and serve the people there, as they do elsewhere in the country. Since the Jubilee Government is unable to make this diagnosis, let me refer them to Bill Clinton, one of the most distinguished American Presidents. When President Clinton was on his first term, as our President is today, he was asked, what it would take for him to be reelected. He replied “The economy, stupid.” He indeed fixed the economy and won a second term by a landslide. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I advise the Jubilee Government that if they want to find out what it will take them to get a second term, it is “security, stupid.” We cannot talk of the Government when there is no security in the country. In the absence of security, it means that the Government is absent. This leads me to ask: Does the Government know that the north eastern region is part of Kenya? If it does, why should it be that when you want to talk, read or watch television footage about poverty, insecurity, illiteracy or famine, it must be reporting from the north eastern region? Those of us who do not come from north eastern region, we are just as much pricked by this failure as the leaders from that region. As a doctor, you know that pus, also known as usaha; pus anywhere is pus everywhere . So, unless you incise the abscess, and get rid of the pus quickly, it spreads to the rest of the body and the patient dies. If we do not go there and incise that abscess, that is the reason for the insecurity, that insecurity, is spreading and the patient called Kenya will die. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, speaking on the issue of refusal by our teachers to go and take up their jobs, I beg the leadership from the north eastern region led by the able Senator to please be understanding. Those teachers are not doing that to punish the children, out of selfish reason or for purposes of proving a point that they do not come from there. They fear for their lives and they are justified. In the same Bill of Rights, just as we have the right to access to education, we also have the right to life. A normal 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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