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"content": "Thank you for giving me this opportunity to support. I am in agreement with the hon. Dr. Mwiria. He actually picked words off my mouth because, for me, I would want us to focus our money on the issue of inequality through policies that the Ministry furthers, through resource allocation and through issues of gender discrimination. I have raised this in the House before. One of the policies that I am really against is the issue of language; the medium of instruction in schools especially for rural and peri-urban schools. We teach our children in local languages and expect them to sit and undertake examinations competitively with their counterparts who have been dancing and singing in English since birth. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we want to realize Vision 2030, we must invest in people and, particularly, our women. God placed our Minister at this place at such a time like this for a purpose. This is because Nyanza had been the cradle of intellectualism in this country. The situation of education in Nyanza is, however, becoming deplorable. This is especially the education of girls. It is embarrassing and a shame. I would want to encourage us to invest money and come up with a special law on education of girls in Nyanza, whether Kisii Nyanza, Kuria Nyanza, Suba Nyanza or Luo Nyanza. Recently, I was asked for girls from Nyanza for certain positions nationally and all the names I had had grade D-Plus or D-Minus. If you look at the national results from Nyanza, I think there were hardly two girls who had grade A in the entire province. This is something that does not require just a plan. We must come up with a law and focus on it. Under the new Constitution, we now have opportunity to look into marginalized areas. We must equalize through the Equalization Fund. One of the special areas of focus must be the girls in Nyanza. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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