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    "id": 950471,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you allow me, recently a young man sent me a text message asking me to come up with a Bill to prevent people from being cremated. I sent him a message asking where the problem was. When he called me and I asked what his problem was, he asked me whether Jesus would have resurrected if he was cremated. I told him that the same Bible says; “Lisilowezekana kwa binadamu, kwa Mungu linawezekana .” If Jesus was to be cremated, maybe God would have caused that fire not to burn and still he would have resurrected. Sen. (Rev.) Waqo and Sen. Cheruiyot, let us have faith and all things will work. Sen. (Dr.) Zani, must consider increasing the penalties of fraudulent people who make children tools of trade. In fact, apart from cancelling the licenses and fining them heavily, some custodial jail terms should also be imposed to them. Such people are not any different from the Europeans and Arabs who shipped black people to the Middle East and Americas as slaves. How can somebody collect children from everywhere, then go and beg for money in the streets of America? I have visited many children’s homes. If you go to those homes, those children eat food worse than what our prisoners at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison eat. If they are given any meat for protein, it is once a week. The piece of meat is smaller than this nail on my thumb, but you will find somebody taking pictures and sending them to their masters stating that they feed helpless children. We must stop this. The Government must take full responsibility of children of this country. When we were campaigning, both the Jubilee Party and the National Super Alliance (NASA) Party were competing, we were at par on how to deal with the children of Kenya. The NASA Party said that education should be free and compulsory from Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) to university. The Jubilee Party promised that education will be free and compulsory from ECDE to Form Four if they won. Six years later, they have not given free ECDE. I am sure Sen. (Eng.) Hargura experiences this when he goes to Marsabit County. When you go to your county, every morning you are visited by two categories of people. We have those who require school fees and those with health concerns; the most basic of human needs. Everybody comes carrying a bill from a hospital requiring money from you or they tell you that their child has not joined Grade One. Why did the Jubilee Party promise that they will provide free and compulsory education? They committed a monstrous fraud on the people of Kenya and God will punish them for that because you cannot take people for a ride. I challenge any of my colleagues in the Jubilee Party to tell me if there is free and compulsory education in Kenya, but I know we will bisect on the Floor because it is not happening. Even those across are as embarrassed about this as we are on this side because it is not happening. It will not happen until we get to power. That is when we will change the situation because they will continue--- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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