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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support this very important issue that was raised by the Senator for Bungoma. However, I will do my thinking along the lines of Sen. M Kajwang’. I do not think that this was entirely a silly idea, as is being posed by many of our colleagues. While it may have been a brilliant idea to introduce young children to ICT literacy at a very young age, the issue that many Senators are raising is the way in which this programme was introduced and how it has been executed. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have seen this in my county, where occasionally, when I visited primary schools, the head teachers took me around, showed me gadgets and said; “This is where we dumped those things that you sent us from Nairobi.” There is completely no programme, no facilitation, and no curriculum preparedness for the teachers that are supposed to teach the young people. Therefore, perhaps the most urgent and important thing that we need to do, as a House, when this Committee retreats to consider this issue with an eventual view of presenting it before the entire House is to answer the following questions: “What was the intention? Where are we currently? What went wrong and what if the programme can be salvaged going into the future? This is because I still hold the view that even at that young age, given the way the world is moving, it is important for our children to be computer literate and for them to understand many of the things that we are doing in this day and age. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the sentiments that are being raised by Sen. Wetangula. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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