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    "id": 1048526,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. From the onset, I want to congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Milgo for this brilliant idea. Under the devolved functions of devolution that came into force in 2010, one of the salient features has been the ECDEs. This is timely, even as we look to ensure that we ring-fence the specific allocation of funds to specific areas like health and agriculture. I want to agree with our colleagues that ECDEs are very critical because they are the foundation and the basis of any child in this Republic. We have seen so many counties trying their best to come up with infrastructure among the primary schools that we have across the country. Madam Temporary Speaker, according to the Basic Education Statistical Booklet (2016) that was released by the Ministry of Education on early learning and basic education, we had 110,819 learners in ECDE centres. This shows that there is a significant improvement looking at the ECDE centres in the first term of devolution in 2014 to 2015. I think there are around 50,000 ECDE centres that we have in this country. What is important is that in as much as we focus, as my colleague Senator and neighbour has indicated, we should not concentrate only on issues of infrastructure. We must also look at ensuring that ECDE teachers are given the same benefits like the teachers who are being hired by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). 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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