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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "sample the final legal setting that you have put in place. It is important that we pay attention to transitional elements and provisions relating to the existing education centres and the early investments. In any system that is set up, you must put what you call quality assurance in terms of running a system, create structures and generate policy guidelines. However, under those policy guidelines, there must be a policy framework or quality assurance that what you have set as a standard is actually achievable. If it is not achievable, let us ask why is it not achievable. How you must move to the next level to achieve it? You have already negotiated and said, yes, quality assurance is applicable to the basic education level. There are already very robust structures in place. We must mirror back to the ECDE and set up these quality standards. I am glad that these elements have been captured in the Bill. The only issue I have is that these regulations have been left with the national Government. There should be consultations with the county governments. I do not know how you treated this when the regulations were formulated by the national Education Secretary, whoever who is the Cabinet Secretary or Cabinet Minister depending on which Constitution you are applying. Were those regulations formulated in consultation with the county governments? There should be a provision, because the early childhood element is purely a county affair. Normally, when the regulations are being created, the Ministry has the tendency of ignoring that there is a segment, which they are not running. That segment in those national regulations which are being set, there must be a clear input by county governments, either through the CoG Committee on Education or some format of some level. That would be maybe for future amendments of the Act. The first thing that we should do now is to shepherd this Act through, so that it can come as one of the first amendments to the Act to cater for the transition. Madam Deputy Speaker, this is a wonderful job, which has been done. I am glad that it is already on the table. If you can put it to Division tomorrow, we will be too happy to pass it because it has taken too long. Congratulations Mediation Team and the committees that have served both from 2013 to 2017 and up to now. Madam Deputy Speaker, you were the Vice-Chairperson and I was a Member. We enjoyed serving in that Committee. I thank you."
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