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Mayors at the same time. Still on the political issues, the President should also have his running mate, the Vice-President, so that
we clearly know the combination the choice, how it is to bring cohesion and unity in the nation.
Now I had submissions on patriotism, how to build patriotism in the nation. We need to invest more in political education in this
nation to educate the public on ethics, national ethics, national unity, patriotism. I am involved in the education sector and when
we look at our youth and the kenyan population, patriotism is lacking and we have to build a nation of people who appreciate
their country, their values. They have to have some ethics, they have an understanding of our national hood. So, our organs,
public media especially the radio and TV, we can invest some money at least on basic education programme to give to the
public to know what is expected of them. That is what we have failed to do and we are building our people who don’t have
patriotism for this nation.
My other contribution is on education. Education, I have this to say; we should provide basic education to our population so
that we bring up a population that is at least literate, able to read, write understand, and at least can be communicated to. So up
to standard four minimum, education should be free to the children of this nation and we can create resources so that even we
can go down the pre-nursery, primary stage, and we can take care of all that. Standand five to eight, that level of education, I
mean cost sharing can be brought to being with school committees having to charge what should be financed but the state
should provide the learning and teaching resources so that the burden is reduced. But at least the parents can cost share rather
than where it is left openended and basic elements are missing there. The rest, I would like to leave my contribution to that.
Now, I would like to talk on natural resources in this nation. Our natural resources, especially the water resources, the forest
resources, the wildlife resources, the beaches and all that, historical sites, these natural resources we have, we are in danger of
depleting them. They are depleted and we have actually to have legislation, we should actually come come up with rules at least
to protect, preserve, renew and expand the resources because we have a problem in the making. We should come down to
the local level where the resource is and let the local people have an input in the protection and expansion measures for
sustainable resources. Also at national level, we shall have a national body to overlook all the natural resources, the beaches we
have, the water, the rivers, lakes and all that.
And also looking at the culture, it is also part of the resources we have that makes us a unique state of Kenya. We should also
do something to sustain it so that we don’t ape other people whose culture is actually gone and depleted. Let us look at ways to
preserve our uniqueness of culture in the group of people. We still have very unique cultures. Let us do everything to sustain
them, our songs, our dances our ceremonies. I wish we could be able to look at that.
The other areas we contributed to, on women and youth development I would like to suggest this one; we should, as the
people, come up with a ministry that takes care of the youth and women. The mothers, they have to take care of the youth more
than us, the men we need a ministry that is concerned with that one.
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