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    "content": "necessary. There are some busy bodies like Mr. Okiya Omutata who will just go to court to challenge things that do not make sense sometimes. However, the courts are there to hear them. When one is a judge and a litigant comes before the court, you must hear him or her however hopeless. Every dog is entitled to its day in court as the saying goes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, further the Bill provides that all the members of the Sub-County Education Board shall have a minimum qualification of secondary education. That is the same to what I said earlier. I do not need to belabor. The Senate Majority Leader must define what secondary education certificate is. If one has a certificate like my friend Mwahima, does one qualify? I know that he is not the only one, there are many others. These days, when one wants a certificate, they go to River Road where one can get a degree from Australia and New York as well as title deeds for non- existent property. The Bill proposes that a Member of Parliament from the respective sub-county may attend the meetings of the Sub-County Education Board but shall have no voting right. The Members of Parliament and MCAs are representatives of the people. Therefore, when you create something that touches the lives of people, do not give them the option of they may attend. Obligate them to attend but define who seats there to attend. The moment you say that they may attend, they just leave it. Some of us will remember that there was a man called hon. Kioko from Changamwe. He was a Member of Parliament for 10 years then he was voted out and lost all the subsequent elections for about five times. However, when the people made the mistake of electing him again, he went back and told them: “Thank you for giving me my last chance to get my pension. Let me not see anybody at my door.” For five years, he worked that way. After those five years, he had the audacity to go and seek re-election. He was of course summarily shown the door. Therefore, we must obligate leaders to go and attend those meetings. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not want to belabor the point on Clause 25(C). The same fear that I have on county boards are replicated on sub-county boards. They have been obligated to ensure that all institutions of basic education and training have a conducive learning environment. If the County Education Board is doing the same thing, why do we want the sub-county board to replicate the same function? If a board sitting in Kapsabet is looking at the whole of Nandi County, how then can we say that another board sitting in Emgwen can do the same function as the board sitting in Kapsabet? We are repeating what happened during the reign of President Kamuzu Banda when he terrorized Malawians. He would send a delegation to Nairobi for a meeting then send somebody to watch out how that delegation is going to behave then send another person to watch the person watching the delegation. Each one of them was a spy. If a bad report was issued on you back at home, you ended up as food for the crocodiles in River Zambezi. That happened to many people. It will also establish and maintain a register for all public and private youth polytechnics, home craft centres and so on. In addition, it will generate and maintain statistics in all education matters. All these are the things that the main board is supposed to be doing. The other one is to generate a priority of lists of public schools with infrastructure challenges and nominate board of management members and managers of private institutions. How can a board nominate board members for a private school? In 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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