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    "id": 675433,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "The problem with some leaders in this country is that they take their children to good private schools where there are no strikes. It is because the owners of those schools protect them. Ask yourself why private schools are not being burnt. It is because somebody is protecting his investment. We are under obligation to protect the infrastructure and investment in public schools. It is this House that appropriates money. We build those schools with the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NGCDF) and the grants we get from the national Government. Therefore, it is our obligation to protect those schools from arsonists. At the end of this Motion, the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology should be given a timeline to come and explain to this House. We will ask the Speaker. You do not call the CS and have a cup of tea with them. I am the Leader of the Majority Party but let me confess. Some of the Chairpersons of Committees are treating the CSs very nicely. Please, let us represent the people. Let the TSC, the CS and even the OCPD come here. There might be a different angle to this issue. Maybe there is a group of arsonists who are burning these schools. It might not even be the students. We need to find out whether it is the students or arsonists. This is because there was allegation in one of the schools in western Kenya that an intruder came to the school to light a dormitory. We want to know whether by blaming the children we are blaming the wrong people. The Kenyan leadership must reassess itself. If we breed violence, our children will breed and commit violence. If we preach peace, our children will preach peace. As leaders, we are not very good role models to our children over the weekends. I am sure that among the many CSs I have seen, Dr. Matiang’i is to a certain extent one of the hard working Cabinet Secretaries for Education. I have lived here for long. I have met the late Hon. (Prof.) Saitoti, Hon. (Prof.) Ongeri and the late Mutula Kilonzo who were Ministers for Education."
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