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    "id": 603052,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "I am sorry, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. You are not a madam, but a real moran from a famous tribe of this country. I believe that since Sen. Hassan’s Bill proposes that the county governments should be monitored, one of the first thing that they should be monitored on is to what extent they are living up to their obligation or supplying education to a three-year-old or four-year-old. Some of the counties have their priorities completely messed up. County governments cannot possibly start talking about building secondary schools – which is a function of the national Government - when the function that they have been given of managing nursery schools is forgotten and not being prioritized. Sen. Boy Juma Boy and I, visited a nursery school in Kwale County. When we asked where the toilets of the little boys and girls were, they pointed at a maize farm. They told us that is where the boys go to relieve themselves while the girls do so at the other side of a maize farm. Even as we talk about human rights and the right to education, how would those rights be realised if our children are learning in deplorable conditions? The first point of monitoring is to make sure that the county governments are performing their functions as per the Constitution. For example, Baringo County is spending Kshs100 million per annum to build modern kindergartens and nursery schools. When you visit one of the changed institutions, you see changed faces; children are happy and enjoying school life. Therefore, in future, you can expect those children to be interested in education. The issue of prioritizing where to spend money so that we can meet the obligations that we have in the Constitution, as far as economic and social rights are concerned, is what would be monitored and reported to us. In terms of national and county programmes, the first question we should ask ourselves is: How does this project support the youth in creation of jobs in the county? We must get our priorities right. If we have to initiate two projects, we must ask ourselves which one will create job opportunities for the youth. For instance, even if we have to start a huge project, but does not create jobs, then we must do the one that creates job, so that we can meet that economic right of the people. Therefore, if we take what is proposed in this Bill seriously and make it clear to the people that it is not the role of the Government to micro manage individuals. Government is not a micro manager of individuals. For example, you cannot stand in front of your house where you have mud and trees that you can cut and build a decent place, but you still say that you are waiting 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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