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    "content": "When he brought me a file and I looked at it, I found out this man was even posing in photographs with a Standard Eight pupil; his own pupil. He was writing letters to this girl saying: “When I go home I cannot sleep with my wife, unless I think of you.” How can such a fellow look after your child? Such fellows are pedophiles and deserve to be in Kamiti Prison and not anywhere in any classroom. So, they are part of the 5,000 or 6,000 that leave every year. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need in this audit to have a clear policy; that if every year we need to up the number of teachers by 12,000, then we must net out the natural attrition of deaths, dismissals and so on, so that we employ enough teachers to maintain the ratio. In fact, that ratio must continue growing year after year. For example, if you go to Western Kenya, where I come from, where the level and rate of fertility and reproduction is slightly higher than many other parts of the country, we have many children in schools. Woe unto us, as a leadership, if we create a country where we send children to school because they are a nuisance at home - there is nobody to teach them - and in the evening they come back, leaving you eased from the nuisance that they would have given you throughout the day. That is not the way we will bring up our children. Further, I still encourage Sen. Khaniri, the Senator for Vihiga County, that the TSC and the Ministry of Education will not audit themselves properly. I can assure you that they will not bring any good report here. They will bring their fake things, create false numbers in some regions and suppress numbers in others so that they look balanced and fair. This must be done by this House. I have been talking to and finding out about a few of my colleagues and I am told that the distinguished lady Senator is a Professor and the other one is also a Professor. Therefore, we have many people here with dynamism and the passion that can bring change. I want to finish and leave somebody else to speak. At the end of your term as a Senator, whether elected through universal suffrage or party list, it is your duty to leave your county better than you found it. It is your duty to add value to your county. It is not about going back to the county and appearing in public places to be clapped for. It is about going back and finding out if you have enough teachers. I said this in the afternoon - I want to repeat it as we do this because having teachers without facilities is not enough - it is irrational to continue limiting devolution in education to Early Childhood Development (ECD) and village polytechnics. It is totally irrational. We must, as a Senate, engage the National Government. The Constitution is very flexible. Functions can be transferred whether they are in Schedule Four or not. Functions can be transferred on agreement. We, as a Senate, must engage the national Government to transfer the development and management of physical facilities of primary and secondary schools to counties. Resources should be sent there so that when you go back to Tharaka-Nithi, you are better placed to walk into your Governor’s office and ask him why Marimanti Secondary School is looking like that. As of now, you have to travel from West Pokot to go and see the arrogant Matiang’i in the Ministry of Education to ask him why a school in your place is collapsing. The man has the weight of universities, Teachers Training Colleges and so many other things on his head. The last thing he will want to remember is a crumbling The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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