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    "content": "here to explain while in fact, this is the trend all over the Republic. We had problems with the University of Nairobi, the premier university of Kenya where a man from my region being a Vice Chancellor was being undermined to get out so that someone else could sit on that chair. Is that not a shame? This is a national institution. It is high time that we see universities being detribalized so that if you qualify to study or teach, you get the opportunity to do so regardless of where you come from. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, no matter how many reports the Committee make on these matters, unless we see these things happening practically, we will be wasting our time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have talked about ICT and the programme of tablets that are being supplied to our schools. This will be meaningless - expensive or noble as the exercise is, without ensuring that all pupils have access to these gadgets and the gadgets work, it will be an exercise in futility. In addition, ICT teachers in primary schools have not been trained. A few were trained but as we speak, there are schools which have received these gadgets and pupils just play with them like toys yet we have invested so much in them. First of all, training all teachers to know how to handle this equipment should be done; then introduce children slowly. Unless this is done, they will be dumped in stores like they did with the milk programme many years ago where milk was just dumped and people did not care whether the children, the public or teachers took it. In future unless this is properly managed, as noble as it is, it will be a waste of time. Before we make a conclusion on this matter, I request the Chairperson to inform the Cabinet Secretary for Education that despite their pronouncements that all schools will be electrified - and despite their distributions of these gadgets - I have no less than 50 schools without electricity. This must be handled quickly. Without it we will not move. The question of disparity in distribution of teachers is deliberate on the part of this Government. It is so because every year they know how many teachers are in each school. They continue to allow some schools to go without teachers and others to be overpopulated with teachers yet they tell us every year that they will do rationalisation to make sure that teachers go to all schools. There is so much disparity. In fact, the Chairperson should be embarrassed by the disparity in the country. How can a secondary school - from Form One to Form Four - have two Teachers Service Commission (TSC) teachers? In those schools, parents have no money but they are forced to sell their things to employ teachers. They pay taxes like others. So, this kind of discrimination of certain areas by the Government, including my County of Kitui must cease. We can no longer continue like this. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, yesterday, you were on the Chair and I applauded your presiding and the rulings you made. I am very passionate about the children who finished school, completed their examination and passed very well and for 10 years, since 2007 they have no access to their documents. They have not done any mistake. The only mistake is that their parents are poor or deceased. The heads of schools are keeping those certificates. Last week the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) circulated a circular throughout the country and asked students to go to their schools to collect certificates. However, the report I got from my County is that when they went there, they 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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