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    "content": "advises him is made aware by yourselves. If or when learning resumes in the normal way. Hon. Martin Owino has also raised an issue on how they will ensure social distancing. I can see many of you want to say something about all these issues. You better come and say it to the CS tomorrow at 10.00 a.m. inside this Chamber. Do not tell me because I will be watching to see whether you will tell him. You do not have to tell me because I have no way of communicating to the CS. That is because I do not deal with him since I have no business. So, please, we will leave at that. Hon. Melly, ensure that by 10.00 a.m. you take the Chair and let as many of you as possible be here because this is a very serious matter. Indeed, matters concerning education, as Parliament, we should begin asking ourselves questions. Especially, those of you who are slightly older and are spending time with their grandchildren. We should ask ourselves how is it that private schools are the ones doing their best. Most of you went through public schools. How is it that, as a country, we have allowed ourselves to veer off from what is in the interest of the majority of the country? The investment should be in public schools. It is only that Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi is not in the Chamber. He knows. I am sure Hon. Yusuf would perhaps confirm this and Hon. Janet Ong’era. In those days, if you heard somebody going to a private school, you wondered what was wrong with them. They must have been having problems in their heads. The Deputy Speaker might have found a little bit of that and also Hon. Naomi Shaban. Hon. T.J. Kajwang’, we need to get to the bottom of this. How is it that the areas where we have 90 per cent of our children are allocated very little and there is very little learning or supervision? Therefore, as a consequence, performance goes down because a few are able to take their children to private schools. Hon. Members, as Hon. Melly has said, I believe you have the opportunity tomorrow. Also Hon. Ichung’wah has raised this and he will read a Statement later. Please, let us begin to ask ourselves when did the rain start beating us. Let us restore public education to its former glory. There was a response by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Lands. Are you able to do it in five minutes?"
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