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    "content": "When a whole President breaks down on a platform with a governor twice; once in Turkana and then in Mombasa, actually uttering what according to this law would be hate speech, what kind of world are we living in? So, we must examine where we are going First, let us have a government which plans. It is completely travesty building a nation to combine the Ministry of Planning and all kind of things. What you end up doing is because in planning there is no rent seeking. People will pay attention to devolution and you will hear a lot about Kaburus – I do not know what the name was – carrying bags of money in sacks but nobody talks about planning I have not heard of a conference in this country over the last four years in which anybody talked about planning for development. If you do not plan, you will not choose properly; and if you do not choose, you will not develop. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at the same time I was surprised when this Government more or less abolished the National Economic and Social Council (NESC). It is a very good advisory body to the Government. That is the body which helped us build Vision 2030 . It is not there now. We do not hear even about the Vision 2030 Committee that was then headed by a very brilliant young man. Nobody hears about the office called the Rapid Results Initiative (RRI) Committee in the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC). People there are frustrated. They are doing nothing. You cannot have a nation like this where development is based on guess work and pronouncing edicts every now and again by either the President or his deputy; and where Cabinet Secretaries do not know what their responsibilities are except populism. So, it is wanting for somebody to tell me that there was a Presidential State of the Nation Address and begin crowning him with all kinds of laudable praises yet the core of that speech should have been the economy soundly stated and explained, corruption and dealing effectively with that menace to this nation. This speech left a lot to be desired. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let us talk about education. I went to Alliance High School; I got a full scholarship from what was called the District Education Board (DEB). It fully managed primary and intermediate schooling. Primary schooling was from Standard One to Four. Intermediate schooling was Standard Five to Eight. In those days, schooling was schooling. The national Government only managed secondary education but there were some which were under the DEB in colonial times to the early years of independence. They managed education very well. Today, the national Government prides itself in running education but where is this education taking us to? How efficient is it run? It is completely mismanaged. I know that people are praising Dr. Matiang’i for putting it in order but you cannot have a system dependent on one person. You must have a system, not a personality. We may be very happy about this populist thing that Dr. Matiang’i is doing; in one or two years, you will look for substance and it will not be there. We have a serious crisis in our education system. If the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) can give somebody a certificate for all these years and, suddenly, wake up one day and say, those certificates are nonsense, there must be something wrong. “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” We are back to the Nyayo years where a Government body could be used for political purposes and when you refused to be used for political purposes, you are chided. That is the problem with the Auditor General. He has refused to be used for political 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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