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    "id": 675432,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that matter should have had a timeline. The Committee should report within three weeks. In the last nine years, 350 cases were reported of students burning schools. There was even loss of lives. The year 2015 had the highest number of such cases in Kilifi and Machakos. There is nothing unique about Kisii. The media is raving about Kisii. The 350 cases occurred across the country. Ninety nine per cent of the schools affected are county or sub-county public schools. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is a stakeholder in this matter. The teachers who are in these schools must be interdicted. So far, they have only interdicted eight teachers in the last three or four years and yet 98 schools were affected this year. There are many moral questions that this country must ask itself. This has something to do with cheating in examinations. We must call a spade a spade. Education, from primary to secondary to the university is for sale in our country. The highest bidder obtains a degree anywhere. You have seen people going to university, they do not go to class but on graduation day, you find them in large numbers. There are students who score an “A” of 84 points but when they are admitted to the School of Medicine or Engineering they drop out in the first year. This has never happened in Kenya before. The mushrooming of private universities must be looked into. We have formed a culture of cheating. Corruption is not just about stealing money. It also involves stealing examinations. Stealing a spouse is also corruption. Stealing a husband or wife just because you have a few coins in your pocket is cheating. The happenings in our schools mirror the situation of the social fabric of the Kenyan society. In 2013, barely two months after this House was sworn in, somebody brought pigs here with Duale’s name and castigated the entire leadership of the House. I said it here and I still stand by what I said. How do you elect a pig and after two weeks you are blaming him? This is a Kenyan societal problem. These children come from our homes. We are their parents. The blame should go to the parents and the teachers we entrust these children with. The blame should also go to the Board of Management (BOG), the local community and the security agents in those schools. It is not an easy matter when schools are torched every night. By last weekend, over 15 schools were burnt. That should be an issue of national security. I am happy the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government has come in and formed a committee to investigate this matter. The Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology does not have the luxury – if its Members are, they should listen to us - to wait for that. I am the Chairman of the Committee on Selection and the Leader of the Majority Party. We can de-whip them if they fail to live to the expectations. The Committee of this House should not turn itself into disrepute. Why do you have to wait for Hon. Wamalwa to bring a Motion for Adjournment? Today, we should have had a report with serious recommendations. I saw Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Matiang’i in the Senate and I asked him what he was doing there. This is because there is no burning of Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) schools. The Senate looks after the counties which deal with ECDE. I have just come from my constituency. The nursery schools are doing very well. It is this House that must deal with the strikes. The relevant Committee must go to Trans Nzoia, Kisii and Garissa, sit with the parents and get intelligence reports from our National Intelligence Service (NIS). There is a problem and we must know it today. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}