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    "id": 1050334,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I urge our governors to be more serious with ECDE and allocate more funding to it. More so now that we are hoping that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) will pass and that there will be 35 per cent more allocation to the counties, I think they should take advantage of that additional funding to ensure that ECDE is funded and is commensurate to its requirement and importance. Madam Deputy Speaker, since there is a Bill harmonizing ECDE throughout counties and a basis for all the decisions that the governors need to make, I think this is a right step in the right direction. This Committee has shown us that if you provide leadership and do give and take, the work of the Senate will move to the next level because there is a lot of wisdom in this House. Truth be told; the most senior counsel and many professors are in this House. It is a House with very few Members, but with a lot of knowledge and wisdom. The other issue that I wanted to speak about is that we, as the Senate, now know that given this kind of Bills that are going through, if we continue with this process, devolution will go to the next level and it can never be the same. There are many Bills that were returned the other time because of the court ruling, which was led by our able senior counsel, Sen. Omogeni. We should make sure that we prioritise them, so that we do not have Senators who have brought four or five Bills to this House, none of it passes, and then in the end, it is like we have done nothing to show off for our work of five years in this House. 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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