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    "id": 1174951,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Lang’at",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to say my last words in this very important Senate, at this particular point of time in history. Allow me to thank God so much for having touched the hearts of the people of Bomet in 2017 who elected me as their Senator. I thank the people of Bomet for giving me that opportunity to serve them with diligence and courage. I thank God that he gave me that opportunity. Secondly, I thank my colleagues with whom we have been here together. Many a times coming together to champion some Bills, opinions and Statements that have really supported our counties. I remember during the time of the revenue sharing formula, most of us from the Opposition and Government side came together for the common good, for the sake of our people. I thank colleagues with whom we stood together as ‘Team Kenya’ to support our counties. I would also like to thank the Members whom we served together in the Committee on Education. Sen. Omogeni, really guided us on legal matters to support so many things concerning education. During that time, we managed as Members of the Committee on Education to save this country from a lot of confusion on matters to do with the Early Childhood Development Education Bill. We managed to go through it together. We went to public participation, many a time in very challenging areas. We finally succeeded to come up with the Early Childhood Development Education Bill, which now is guiding Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) in this country especially in providing uniformity on the service of ECDE teachers. I would also like to thank the same team for advising the Ministry of Education on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) progress in this country. We are the people who championed and advised the Ministry of Education to emphasize on capitation of Kshs30,000 and a loan to TVET students of Kshs40, 000. I remember that very well. Before then, we were having around 81000 students in TVET colleges in the country. However, when we were winding up, 1.8 million students had succeeded to join TVET colleges. Therefore, I thank those colleagues, people like Sen.(Prof.) Ongeri, who had overwhelming knowledge and intelligence on matters to do with education. He contributed so much towards the development of TVET education in this country. However, we had some challenges, for example, when we were following up on the laptop project that was supposed to be given to standard one children in this country. We really regret that the policy was not taken seriously and most of our schools never received those laptops. I encourage the incoming Government to take that policy seriously to make our children digital and digitize education from the basic to the highest level of education. We also attempted at Committee level to shape the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) program, which we felt by then that it was not the right time to"
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