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    "content": "parent to pay Kshs 6,000. The school collected about Ksh10 Million when the cost of rebuilding is about Kshs2.5 Million. Yesterday, the CS for Education informed the country that the ongoing torching of dormitories in schools is because of exam cheating. How callous? A school like St. Patrick’s Iten has never been cited for examination cheating, but a dormitory went up in flames. Sunshine Secondary School has never been cited in examination cheating, but a dormitory went up in flames too. There is a school in Trans Nzoia County called Bikeke that has never been cited in any examination irregularities, but their dormitory went up in smoke. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must avoid a situation where when there is a problem, instead of looking for solutions, we blame each other. After the blame, the problem does not go away. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we even saw the Government setting up a committee ostensibly to investigate what is going on in schools. The committee is full of policemen. Why can they not appoint professors, academics, sociologists and people who can look at the psychology of the children’s’ mind and ask them to investigate what is going on? Instead, we are told that the Inspector General is going to lead the team. What is happening to schools today is not a crime, but a social problem. We are herding children and locking them up in cells like common criminals. They are taken to court with a lot of fun fair and announcing on radio that yesterday 50 were taken to court. This does not solve the problem we are having. If we were in mature democracies, my friend the CS, Dr.Fred Matiangi, would have reconsidered his position and gone home because it cannot continue happening like this. Look at what happened in the United Kingdom the other day. For no fault of his own, the former Prime Minister David Cameron, reconsidered his position. When the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, it was neither his fault nor his making, but he stepped down. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need as a country to investigate what is going on. We have maintained a conspiracy of silence from the top to the bottom and nobody is talking. As I thank Sen. (Prof.) Lesan for bringing this Motion, I would have expected the Chair of the concerned committee - and I am not criticising the Chairman of the Committee on Education - to come here understanding Standing Order No. 45 (1)(b) unsolicited, to make a Statement of a fundamental importance to the country as to what the Senate of the Republic of Kenya thinks about what is going on. The Chair should not have to wait for a Member to ask a question; neither do you have to wait for a Member to solicit a Statement."
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