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    "content": "of the Committee tells the House and the country that this Senate takes a very dim view of what is going on in our schools. Today, we have recorded 110 schools that have gone up in smoke. That is not a small number because it is still going on. Now, we are told that the CS has called a stakeholder’s meeting tomorrow. He has called bishops, among others, to meet and discuss. What is going on in schools is not spiritual, because there is no evidence that there is a shortage of spirituality in our children burning schools. We should do proper investigations. There are a lot of educationists like Sen. (Dr.) Zani who is a university don. There is also Sen. Karaba who has been a headmaster of a school for a long time and I am sure he knows what it means. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have had so many wrong policy decisions. Somebody just wakes up and says that we cannot administer corporal punishment on errant students. That is piled there. Somebody wakes up and also says in secondary schools, the head teachers have no role in appointing a head boys or prefects. How can we run schools like this? If you are a headmaster - Sen. Karaba has been a headmaster - you appoint a prefect or a head boy who will work with the administration of the school. You will find a rich man’s son coming to school with money to buy bread for his colleagues and he is elected the head boy with no interest on how the school is run or what is going on in the school. That is how he becomes the president of the school. The headmaster or the headteacher has absolutely no control on who becomes the prefect or a head boy. We have even said students representatives will now sit in the Boards of Management or what we used to call Board of Governors. How do you run a country like this? This liberal romanticism, as we call it, is destroying our country. Where there is no discipline, Adolf Hitler said, “Even robbers without discipline will not succeed.” You have to be disciplined if you go on a mission. However evil the mission is, your success will depend on your level of discipline. Even when a murderer is embarking on his evil mission, if he has no discipline, he will not succeed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have thrown discipline through the window. All we are talking about is rights. I am a lawyer who believes in people’s rights. We are talking about rights, rights, rights, rights. Nobody is talking about responsibilities. Rights are nothing if they are not moving with attendant responsibilities; that, this is my right, but I am responsible also in this manner. That is how we can have our country running. This “snoring” Jubilee Government is letting us down. No wonder we keep on questioning the legitimacy of this Government. Things are happening, but the leadership is just busy looting the country and stealing whatever is in sight, for instance, Eurobond, land, National Youth Service (NYS) scandal and so on. Give us leadership."
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