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    "id": 1057620,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Loima, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Lomorukai",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ekamais Lomorukai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice. The ECD centres have a critical obligation of ensuring that our children get proper education. If you got to the rural areas, and majorly, parts of northern Kenya, you can hardly trace any proper infrastructure. It would be prudent if this mediated law entrenches issues of the pastoralist communities especially the nomadic people who keep moving from one place to the other. If you go to places like Turkana West, Turkana North or even Loima, nomads keep moving from one particular area to even the other side of the border between us and the districts in Uganda. Therefore, the children are not getting any education in those particular areas. Therefore, we need to ensure that there are mobile ECD schools that keep on moving with the nomadic communities to the respective areas where they go looking for pasture and water. That would be very critical to have in this very important law. Number two, there should be feeding programmes in ECD centres. If you go to the counties, some counties have built some structures somewhere. However, they have not provided any feeding program. Therefore, it becomes difficult for the people in the northern parts of Kenya to take children to school. Food goes hand in hand with the kind of infrastructure that we put there. Therefore, building structures and leaving them that way with no food and you expect children to go to school, I think will not improve anything. Both county and national governments are minimally participating in this important process in ensuring our children get quality education. In addition, there is lack of supervision or monitoring. When we build ECD centres across the country, there should be a body that ensures there is supervision to establish whether the children are getting education or not. In some areas, if you get the kind of teachers that have been employed by the county governments to give education to our children down there, in fact, their level is hardly even a level of Standard Eight. Therefore, it will be important to supervise to ensure that even the human resource found there are people of high education and those who have gone to school and know the kind of skills to impart to the ECD children. Those are the most critical things we need to observe in this very important Bill. I take this opportunity to support the Bill. It is timely and it will solve the issues of our young children getting early childhood education. Thank you."
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