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    "id": 1111384,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, is it a coincidence? I completely agree with Sen. Omogeni on the many things he has said including Inshallah being governor of Nairobi City County next year. He is right that this is an issue for the Senate Committee on Labour and Social Welfare; that we can look at it jointly with the Committee on Education. Of course, ECDE is the foundation of education for our children. If we get it wrong at that level, it is very hard to get it right later. That is when they are told about a “bottle” or “botro” and to pronounce certain words. If they do not get it then, they will not get it. They are also taught the discipline of attending school that changes them a lot. I can see it even in my children. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I say this is an issue for the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare because incidentally this morning I have signed a Bill on the county public service boards (CPAB) which is an amendment to the County Government Act. Initially, it was supposed to be a County Public Service Boards Bill. It now institutionalizes each of the 47 CPSBs so that we do not have a situation where the standards, for instance, of education in Nyamira are different from those of Makueni or Bomet so that we can have intercountry transfers. If you are hired in Makueni, you can go and work in Taita Taveta. If you are hired in Nyamira, you can go and work in Mandera. If we do not do that, our counties will become ethnic Balkans where if you are Luhya from Bungoma, you cannot work in Kakamega. They will tell you to go back to Bungoma. If your name is Mutua born in Bungoma, you have no hope. There are many things we want to do but we must harmonize the schemes of service to make sure ECDE teachers are given the same and equal treatment and taken seriously. Counties are not taking the education docket seriously because it is only ECDE that is devolved to them, yet in many counties such as Nairobi City County, we have a lot of these schools which are former local government schools. They are in a deplorable state. None of you would want their children to be in such a school. It is the same for Community’s Health Volunteers (CHVs). These also play such an important role that they need to be given something. They work for free. Last week, I was talking to my CHVs from Kariobangi North who are around 110. They are the ones who know who is sick, which house has Tuberculosis (TB) and other issues. If I get a 100 of them in each of my 85 wards, that would be 8500 CHVs. If each of them got an allowance of Kshs500, it would be Kshs127.5 million per month coming to Kshs1.53 billion per year. That in Nairobi City County with a budget of Kshs40 billion is a drop in the ocean. Investing that in those CHVs will in turn reduce the cost of healthcare by more than Kshs3 billion. There are many things governors need to take seriously and to think differently. Maybe Sen. Omogeni is a prophet and what he is saying may come true. From next year, all the 8500 CHVs in Nairobi City County will have a minimum of Kshs15000."
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