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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Motion. Allow me to congratulate the Member who has come up with the Motion. There is very little we can give to our children more important than education. All these other things we have are all sideshows. In the modern world, the only thing which is worth enumerating to be given by either the parent or the Government is education. The problem that we have in the north eastern region of this country – insecurity – is so big that I am not convinced that the Government is making every effort to ensure that education continues smoothly in that part of our country. I would like to urge the Mover of the Motion not to assume that the teachers refused to go to north eastern. It simply became untenable when people come into a bus and they separate Muslims and non-Muslims and then they shoot the non-Muslims dead. If you survive from that kind of situation, to them be told to go back to a similar situation is very difficult. Kindly let me urge the Mover to see that those of us who are non- Muslims and one way or the other are required to go and work in that part of the country, we find it very difficult. Some solution must be found so that one can feel safe to be there. We do appreciate that it is probably not the ordinary citizens of that area who are engaged in these heinous acts, but I am aware of a number of teachers who were in Garissa around the time teachers were taken out of a bus and killed and the reason they survived was because they missed the bus. Otherwise had the bus not been full, they would have boarded the bus and would also have been killed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, to this extent, I would also like to call upon the leaders in that part of the country to take part in helping the Government to get a solution 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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