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Although we have condemned 8-4-4, I want to say that some of the subjects or all these subjects that are being taught at
primary level like music, arts, agriculture and so on, I think they are very important because each one of us has got his own
talents.
Com. Nunow: (inaudible)
Joshua Iugu: Okay, I am sorry. So, we used to have Technical schools and these Technical schools, I remember by the time I
was still in school, they were 17 in the country. So, instead of bringing this music, art and craft and so on in secondary and
primary level, they should have increased technical schools. From seventeen up to or may be fourty or more or so according to
how they would get personnel. Now I have stopped talking professionally.
Now let me talk about politics. I feel our MP's, are somehow… I am sorry to use the word 'robbers'. They are approving huge
their salaries for themselves. I would like a Commission to be set up to look into the salaries of MP's every after five years or
every after ten years. Not MPs to approve salaries for themselves. That is stealing. That is robbing, it is like allowing a thief to
come to your house to steal. I don’t like that and if this kind of thing is going to continue, I am telling you that so many people
will be poverty striken. They will be hard hit .
Okey, next point I would like to speak about the PS. Permanent secretaries, I know they play a very vital role but I am sorry
to say that they are the ones who have run our economy down. They should be appointed by MPs, by Parliament. That is what
I mean. Not one person who fills the civil service with his relatives only, who fills the civil service with thieves, who will continue
transfering thieves here and there. Let the Parliament approve them because I believe that our MPs have the basis for that right
because we are electing them from grssroots.
Secondly, I want to say this…(Interjection) Just a minute please, thank you. Just a minute.
I am not supporting Federal state reasons being that we don’t have resources in some areas and I know what a Federal state
means. I know it means that resources that are around you are the ones which you are going to use to meet what your
alligations and to get social ammenities and I know that a place like Bunyore is so poor. Although we have a lot of rains, our
farms are not able to give us enough resources. People have no money to buy fertilizers. Urea fertilizer is imported using a lot of
money and most of our people are not working so to get fertilizer is not easy. Otherwise, I recommend that farmers should be
given fertilizers free. And then the money can be recovered from the harvest the way it is happening in Uganda. That’s why
Uganda is able to have a lot of maize in stock and sell some to Kenya. If you go to Busia you will be surprised.
National cake: We have some areas in the country which are actualy rich but they are very few. I will talk about Nairobi alone.
We know that schools situated in different areas in Nairobi… For example we have got a school in Muthaiga, we have a school
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