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    "id": 1048579,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "the longest time, Murang’a County used to be one of the best performing counties on matters education, but there has been a little bit of deterioration. When I was young and growing up, I recall Murang’a used to be ranked top five in education. Since we stopped ranking, I am not so sure what number we are now, but there is a lot that needs to be done on matters early childhood education. When you look at demographics of my county, we have a situation where very few children are being born. These are factors that I doubt we can really arrest. We have a changing world where women want to have fewer children. On the other hand, I see an opportunity in that because if we are having less children in Murang’a County, it means we can give them quality education and services. If you go to places like Kahuya Primary School in Kiharu, Ithanga Primary School in Gatanga, Maragwa Primary School in Maragwa Constituency or Kigumo Primary School, you will find that our ECDEs now have fewer children. Long time ago, in Kigumo Primary School, there used to be about 200 nursery school children. Currently, we have about 50. That then means that Murang’a County can now ably provide free food for those children, employ more teachers and ensure the classrooms are up to standard. Once we do that, the quality of education in Murang’a County is going to be the best. We are going to improve education. Madam Temporary Speaker, we can even afford to buy modern equipment, modern teaching aides and tools to educate the Murang’a child. Therefore, I am looking forward to the passage of this Motion, so that we invest more resources in Murang’a County. I have no doubt the children of Murang’a will be the engineers, doctors and scientists of tomorrow. Thank you. I support."
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