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    "content": "primary school in Marimanti or Tartar in West Pokot or Malakisi in Bungoma. We must transfer these to the counties. This Senate has the authority, both under the Constitution and the law, to engage the national Government to do this. The resources that are available for this physical development and maintenance of schools can go to the counties and bring up our schools. As we talk about teachers, equally important is the issue of management of our moral fiber in schools. If you look around, you will see that schools that are under the tutelage and cover of religious organizations, be they Muslims or Christians, are normally better orientated towards bringing up children than schools that are left to District Education Boards and so on. I have seen universities recruiting chaplains. You probably came a little too late in the University of Nairobi. When I was there, and Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri was a professor then, we had a Canadian priest called Professor Dondas who had a good orientation on how to bolster the moral standard and capabilities of children. He would tell the students who were coming in the do’s and the don’ts. Some of these girls who get entrapped by their male teachers do so because of lack of moral orientation in the school. As we carry out this audit, we may obligate whoever will do it to also look at the ratio of students to teachers, number of female teachers and where they are located. As we move forward, as country, I saw a very dangerous Motion passed in Kiambu County. If they go in that way, we will end up having no country. Kiambu is the bedroom of Nairobi. It is what it is because of its proximity to the centre of the country. How do you pass a Motion in Kiambu County and say that all public and private enterprises in Kiambu will be obligated to employ 70 per cent of employees from Kiambu and they must be indigenous. What country are we building? How are we going to get teachers from Kisii County to teach in Mandera County? How are we going to get teachers from Tharaka-Nithi County to teach in Bungoma County if we start this parochial, narrow minded thinking? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we move forward, and the entire leadership across the Floor, should talk about this; that the Senate be obligated to look at legislations being passed in county assemblies to see whether they are developing devolution and national cohesion or they are antithesis of national cohesion and devolution. When you say that my county will employ 70 per cent of people from here, where do other Kenyans go? How do people from villages in Bungoma like me come to work in Nairobi where I was not born and called indigenous? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is very dangerous. I would encourage that you, in the Government side, tell the County Government of Kiambu that, that is not the way to go. If everybody will withdraw into their ethnic cocoon and think they can manage, they will soon realise how deficient they can be, until and unless we are a country called Kenya. I want a country where the moment you are told somebody has been killed in Mandera, you feel the pain of the people of Mandera, because those are your compatriots. The moment you are told somebody has been killed in Borabu, you feel the pain of the people of Borabu because those are your compatriots. As I finish, recently there was trouble in Bungoma on 17th October, 2017, where people were resisting to vote and the police unleashed terror on them. They shot dead two The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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