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    "content": "network so that information could be accessible to all and valuable knowledge could be assessed and shared.” That is what the Secretary General said. I truly want to thank the think tank of Jubilee. The think tank of Jubilee actually thought ahead of this speech by the Secretary General. In her manifesto, Jubilee addressed this particular thing and told us they were going to give our children free laptops. However, what has happened four years later, there are no laptops for our children in schools. I was reading in the media a few days ago that they are starting something this week or towards the end of last week in Mombasa. This is a very convoluted and misguided sort of thinking by the Jubilee Government. That in the first year, the National Assembly set aside in its Budget billions of shillings for laptops. In the second year, third year and fourth year it was the same and our children have not been given the laptops. Then the amount of corruption in this Jubilee Government should be the one thing that will define the misfortune of the accident of this country ever having been ruled by Jubilee. To steal billions of shillings consecutively for four years and every year they approach the National Assembly and say, “give us billions of shillings we are going provide laptops to our children,” and they do not. It is unforgiveable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, since we are there, may I address myself and my mind to this issue of laptops? If Jubilee cares to read the proceedings of this House, please note; that even if you give 60,000 laptops in Phase One, it will have absolutely no impact whatsoever. We say in science that, that kind of endeavour is not statistically significant. Let us assume for a moment that a laptop is brought at Malinya Primary School and they are given to Class One children. Thank you very much if you do it. I warn you the moment those laptops arrive in Class One at Malinya Primary School, that will be the end of learning in Class Two, in Class Three and all the way up to Class Eight. This is because the children in those classes will be dying to go and peep through the windows of the Class One children to see what a laptop looks like. They will not be paying attention the whole day. What then will happen is that a noble idea that has been confined only to Class One children will end learning in the entire school. If they bothered to consult – and there is no shortage of professionals who could advise them – Jubilee should have rolled out this project, not as a laptop project, but as computer laboratories so that at least two computer laboratories are built in every primary school in Kenya. Once you build those computer laboratories then the heads of the school will plan on Monday at 8.00 a.m. Class One will go, at 10.00 a.m. Class 2 will go and so on until every child in the school has got access to computer knowledge. Since Jubilee is busy eating meat when the rest of the Kenyans are salivating, they care not that the children of the poor are being treated like the wretched of the earth. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the second speaker of this conference was the Hon. Jerome Fitzgerald, the Minister of Education, Science and Technology in the Cabinet of the Bahamas and the Chair of this particular conference. Again, there were key highlights in his speech and one has impressed me. He speaks to the issue of education for all. He says in bullet one: “That during the World Education Forum in Korea held in previous months, countries reflected on the need for education for all goal since 2002.” 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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