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    "content": "schooling and coming out, having performed well. I, therefore, hope that Sen. (Dr.) Ali, together with the other leaders, support our Committee to ensure that we encourage local leadership to come out and campaign seriously on the quality of education. During political campaigns, we go around campaigning for our parties, selling our party policies until the people buy them. Why do we also not campaign to sell quality education and performance until they perform well like all other children in all other regions? Madam Temporary Speaker, it is high time that leaders from those particular counties, including the county government leadership, speak out against retrogressive cultures and attitudes. I am a pastoralist and I know how some of our cultures can make our boys and girls believe that they cannot be taught by a young man or woman of a certain age or those people coming from a certain religion. We need to join hands to fight these retrogressive cultures and change the attitudes of our people towards education. Madam Temporary Speaker, security is a right for everyone. We cannot just say that those teachers should just stay and teach there for five years without being protected. Our teachers in North Eastern must also be protected. Therefore, the county and national governments should join hands to ensure that the security systems and infrastructure are put in place there. Why do we not have the biggest army barracks, Administration Police (AP) Camps and police stations in the North Eastern area? We may not need many of such in Nairobi; however, we need the big AP camps and machinery in those areas. Therefore, the county governments, in collaboration with the national government, should ensure that they have invested in security in North Eastern so that not only teachers, but also children and locals are protected. Madam Temporary Speaker, one other issue that we, in the Committee, need to seriously look into in this particular Motion is that of training. We need to encourage students from North Eastern to also take up teaching courses so that we can have teachers from those areas being employed there to be role models. This is because we need role models at times. Some of our children only see politicians or the Members of Parliament (MPs) as role models and not teachers, doctors and lawyers who come from their communities. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have many lawyers in this House. In some of our counties, children do not know that there are lawyers in this country. They only know of teachers and politicians. We need to encourage students from Northern Kenya, once they complete secondary education, to pursue teaching as a career so that they can teach in that region. I also want encourage the leadership of Northern Kenya not to believe that their children can only be taught by their own teachers. If we continue with that belief, we shall have a situation where people from Mt. Elgon, Uasin Gishu, Kajiado and Narok counties will also demand to be taught by their own teachers. This should be discouraged because we want to promote diversity. Madam Temporary Speaker, we never had enough infrastructure in our schools. For example, we did not have a fence, CCTV cameras, watchmen and matrons. The morals and values of our children are questionable. There are schools that cannot afford CCTV cameras or armed security. Parents make their children understand learning can take place anywhere even under a tree. 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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