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    "content": "standing at numbers close to 60,000, policemen and huge budgets that nobody audits that have to protect the people of this country. So, one of the problems of education in Northern Kenya is security. In an area that has such a fragile eco-system and parents have to walk hundreds of kilometers to look for pasture, water and livelihoods, one would have thought that the process that was started by colonial governments in the 1940s and 1950s would be enhanced by now and we would be having fully fledged boarding schools in strategic parts of Northern Kenya. Boarding schools are not just boarding schools because you have dormitories for children and some poor quality food for them to remain in school but in the real sense there should be adequate housing for teachers as well. In every cluster of boarding schools, there must be a security apparatus to protect the children, teachers and other auxiliary workers in those institutions. That is why I am talking of collaboration and cooperation between county governments and the national Government. This House votes sufficient money to most of the counties. Turkana and Mandera counties get high doses of money. Madam Temporary Speaker, even without the segmentation and demarcation of responsibilities under Schedule Four, I expect the county governments of Mandera, Turkana and other affected counties to build state of the art facilities for boarding schools and then use this House to obligate the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the Ministry of Education to make sure they give them adequate teachers and books, where books are required. At the end of the day, you can get children to sit examination with those in other schools and compete fairly. Another thing of recent creation that is worrying is religious undertones that are emerging that are not helpful to this country. You saw and I am sure my colleagues also saw this. In a school in Loiyangalani in Marsabit, school children descended on teachers and thoroughly beat them and the only problem was that those teachers were from elsewhere. That is not a problem of those children but a problem of moral decay in our society. When we were growing up, we used to be told that anybody the age of your father is called father and anybody the age of your mother is called mother and a teacher was like your parent. You could never imagine a situation where a school child could wake up and physically beat a teacher to the extent that some teachers went to hospital. The moral decay is also something that the Committee must address. Where have we taken the wrong turn? Why would a child whose brain ought not to have been contaminated by the vagaries of religion, ethnicity and so on think that because Sen. Seneta is from Kajiado, she has no right to be a teacher somewhere else? These are issues that we must address. The third issue that the Committee must look at is inadequacy--- I can see my time is almost up. May I beg for a little more time?"
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