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    "speaker_name": "Sen Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank you for giving me this chance. I laud the very good work done by this Committee in handling these two petitions that were presented before them. One of particular interest to me is the issue of ECDE teachers, which has been ably observed by the Committee. It is an issue that cuts across all the 47 counties and Republic of Kenya. I agree with the recommendation of the Committee that it is more of a failure on our part more than the county governments in ensuring that we can have a unified scheme of service for the entire 47 county governments, so that we do not have these disparity as it was described by the chairperson, where you have teachers in Nandi, Kericho and Bomet which are three neighbouring counties that share almost every other demographic, but when you look at the disparity in terms of pay for ECDE teachers, it is at great variance. I agree with the Committee that a notification needs to be sent to the Council of Governors (CoG). I do not know who the CEO is after the previous one, who on many occasions when we had such matters used to be quite diligent in ensuring that when the Senate passes similar recommendations, in no time committees would actually receive proposals from the CoG on what needs to be done. I believe this is work that the current leadership at the CoG can ensure that is proposed to us on what on average would be a similar pace. Sort of akin to what is done with teachers who are teaching in the rest of the lower level education that is unified across the country. That is a very important aspect that the teachers in Kericho County raised during the visit by this particular Committee. I, therefore, agree with their proposal. As Senator 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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