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    "id": 1098072,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, thank you for also giving me an opportunity to make my contribution to this important and progressive Bill. I first want to begin by congratulating my neighbor Sen. (Dr.) Milgo, the Chairperson of the Committee on Education and, also the former Chair of that Committee, my good neighbor, Sen. (Dr.) Lang’at for the good work that has gone into preparing this Bill. I served for two years in the Committee on Education and we were part of the brains behind the development of this Bill. I must say it is very progressive and will be very useful to our counties. If you read our Constitution in the Fourth Schedule Part II, one of the functions of the county government, the words that were used are very specific. It says, ‘Implementation’. When you are being told ‘implementation’, you have been given an obligation. It says part of the functions of county governments is implementation of specific--- Sorry I think I am reading the wrong one. Madam Deputy Speaker, it is to implement pre-primary education, village polytechnics, home craft centers, and child care facilities. If you go to most of our counties, you do not see these centers. I have been to a number of counties and you do not see these centers. It is a very good idea that the Committee on Education has thought it wise to create a legal framework that will govern the establishment and management of vocational education and training centers in our counties. If you do not guide these counties, you will never see them fully taking up the functions that have been assigned to them under the Constitution. You heard the debacle we had on what is happening in Vihiga County. So, as protectors of devolution, we must step in to come with laws that must guide our counties in ensuring that they implement the functions that have been assigned to county governments under our Constitution. Madam Deputy Speaker, in the last ten years or so, this country has seen unplanned expansion of universities all over in many counties. They are unplanned. As Sen Wetangula is saying, you walk in some towns and you will find students on some"
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