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    "content": "There is something that many of us do not take seriously, that is, monitoring and evaluating our programmes. It was fairly agreed that for us to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets, including education, we need to develop quality monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. This is entirely a component that we cannot afford to exclude in all our planning. We need to look at what indicators we expect at the end. What results do we want to see? What are the outputs at the end of making budgetary inputs and providing labour inputs? The other is issue is unemployment in this country. The Chairperson spoke about terrorism as one of the issues that was discussed in the global forum. The unemployment levels in this country are high. If we want to fight terrorism then we need to inculcate in the minds of our youths that we need peace and good neighbourliness. If we want to achieve a peaceful environment, we also need to inculcate the need to live harmoniously with other people. Therefore, there is need to use our education institutions to make sure that the youth we produce become good citizens in the future. I want to conclude by saying that this country has lately had a number of issues that will eventually affect our educational institutions. We have gone tribal as a country. This country has 42 tribes and what has kept us together as a nation is the fact that we narrowed our ethnic differences. Anyone can be the leader, but we must depoliticize our educational institutions. Political leaders should not imagine in any day that particular national institutions like universities belong to certain ethnic communities. They must understand that anyone can lead these institutions. We expect quality education from Moi University as well as Garissa University college which is a constituent college of Moi. If one talks about Sen. (Prof.) Lesan--- Let me not use him as an example because he is from the Rift Valley. One should not say that Sen. (Dr.) Zani should not lead. I do not mean that all people from Rift Valley region are bad people. However, certain individuals with very negative minds must be careful lest their utterances degenerate into serious ethnic divisions and hatred, which we should not encourage as leaders. What will the youth copy from political leaders who fan ethnic hatred and tribal thinking? I am just saying this for the interest of the country. I look forward to a peaceful nation and country that is ready to develop its education systems; a country where you will not know the north from the south or the east from the west, save for the usual administrative and elective boundaries. I look forward to seeing better governance in education. I hail the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Dr. Matiang’i for the efforts he is making, but he needs a lot of support. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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