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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I am giving these parallels for us to understand the importance of moving the country towards the realisation of these social rights. The progressive former President Kibaki instantly announced that there was going to be Free Primary Education (FPE) when he came to power. There was no procrastination or questions, but there was FPE that is still on to date. When the current Government came to power, they extravagantly announced that there were going to issue laptops to every child in the country. After six months, they said they were not laptops, but tablets. After a few months, they do not talk about it anymore yet we budget and avail money for these things. The reason I strongly support this Bill and the framework set out in Clause 6, is that it will obligate and put pressure on the county and national governments that there is a Sheriff around the corner that will ensure that the people of Nyeri must get medicare or that the people of Nyandarua must get water. It is not a privilege, but a right. The people of Machakos are not only entitled to food, but also in good nutrition. This can be done so that the Government of the day does not use public resources as baits for political gain where they spend public funds to drive all the way to Bungoma and go to Lwakhakha to open a border post that was already opened in the Kibaki regime and pretend they are working. They can travel all the way to Bungoma and pretend they are launching a road that has not been budgeted for, but has no contractor, so that they look good that they are doing something. Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope at the Committee Stage, the distinguished Senator for Mombasa County will create severe sanctions, including the possibility of dissolution of a county government or dealing severely with a national Government for abrogating the implementation of the provisions of the Constitution. At this day and age, we cannot stand a situation where Kenyans are drawing water from stagnant pools along the roads; pools that were excavated for murram to construct roads and they create water pumps that are used to tap water for domestic use. We cannot stand and watch a country 51 years after Independence where some Kenyans can afford to tender and award a contract to Chinese contractors to build a private residence worth Kshs1.2 billion with a full runaway when other Kenyans are sleeping on the pavement. This is immoral to say the least. We cannot have a country where children go to school and enjoy Kibaki’s FPE and go to secondary school where the Government makes part contributions and they fall out because their parents cannot afford Kshs7,000 to top up. Madam Temporary Speaker, we cannot afford situations where a child in Standard Eight scores the highest marks and is admitted to a national school, but ends up in a village county school with no trained teachers because the parents cannot afford. We cannot also afford a situation where some Kenyans have fruits from New Zealand as their budding when other Kenyans cannot afford a mug of porridge for a meal. Things must change. 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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