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    "id": 1048580,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion because it is always good to start early when we try to develop our human resources. In order to enlighten citizens, we have to start early. The starting point is the early childhood education. Madam Temporary Speaker, in some parts of this country like Marsabit County, which I represent, we have illiteracy levels of up to 80 per cent. This means that we have a long way to go to get our citizens educated, so that they can participate fully in nation building and understand how to develop the necessary skills. This is a very important stage because as pastoralists. It is at that stage that it is decided whether or not you are going to school. I remember, when we were growing up, when you were young at the age of three, that is when you started looking after the livestock; the young ones of the goats and sheep. That is where you start training as a pastoralist. Those who went to nursery schools at that time ended up being educated and those who missed that ended up not going to school at all because they ended up being herdsmen. That is how their life was determined at that early stage. One reason parents decided to take their children in that direction is because there were no other facilities to take their children to at that stage. If there were those facilities then, they would have opted for that. 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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