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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I am sure you were born in the village and you have seen families that sell their entire possessions to educate one child. I know families with five or six children and they say, let us pick one, take him through school and he will help others. They end up selling family land, family possessions like chicken, goats and cows to see this child through school. At the end of school, there is a recruitment exercise for the armed forces, yet the child cannot participate because he has no certificate. Madam Temporary Speaker, these things have been so painful to all of us who represent constituents. For example, the Medical Training Colleges (MTCs) are recruiting for their intake, the number of Short Messages Service (SMS) we are getting are overwhelming. Many of our students cannot apply to be admitted to MTC because they do not have certificates. They are telling us they owe the school Kshs18,000 and so on. How do I get my certificate? Even if you were generous and you have money, you have something like 300 students queuing at Sen. Karaba’s house, and each has a burden in school of Kshs.20,000; where will he get money to give them? He cannot. This is a State obligation. Now that we see Sen. Musila’s passion on education matters, He should also start looking at the possibilities of when exam results are out and students have result slips and there is opportunity for employment, they should be employed on the basis of result slips because certificates will come anyway. They do not loose opportunities. You will find that you have a result slip and the certificate has delayed to come. Maybe it will come after two months and there in between there is an opportunity. Normally when exam results are released, they are released simultaneously with the result slips that should enable you to go and compete for an opportunity. The certificate will eventually follow when it gets to school and you pick it. We should make it easy for children of this country to get employment; we do not want situations where only big people have their lineage set for juicy jobs. I know of senior people in the Jubilee administration, who as soon as Jubilee came into power, their daughters and sons were posted to Australia or Vienna missions. They did not even qualify, but because they are the daughters and sons of who and who in Jubilee administration, they were posted in those missions. If we are going to run a country like that, then how is mama pima, mama mboga, a hawker or a boda boda child going to get an opportunity to serve this country? We set up a Public Service Commission (PSC) that has been here for years. It is now an elitist club. One shudders when you look at how they are employing people in this country. I do not know whether Sen. Musila, Sen. Hargura. Sen. Omondi Godliver and Sen. Karaba saw what happened three weeks ago when the PSC appointed 350 parastatal directors. Among those appointed, 97 of them are from one community and 65 from another community, respectively. It is a pity that two communities took over 50 per cent of those appointments. Other communities in the whole country got tokenism of 3 to7 appointments. After that, they claimed to stand for national unity and cohesion. They insisted the appointments had brought Kenyans together. How can they say 97 is equal to 3? Are they trying to build a cohesive country? These contradistinctions will destroy our country. It is myopic thinking and selfishness. Utter selfishness! They think they are the Alpha and Omega of our country. They hold the view that if you do not come from a particular mountain, you have no place in this country. Those of us who come from lesser mountains have nowhere to go. Sen. Hargura could say that he comes from the Green Hills of Marsabit. However, he would be told 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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