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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will move from the fertiliser business because it brings unnecessary tension in the House. I will comment on the Statement by my neighbor, the Senator of Kajiado, Sen. Seki, on the matter of ECDE teachers. As a House, we must understand that the Constitution of Kenya has devolved ECDE to build strong foundations for the education of our children. The teachers who are given the responsibility to teach our young people must be properly qualified. As the Committee handles this matter, I would strongly suggest that the scheme of service for ECDE teachers be rolled out uniformly for all the counties so that the teachers who are beginners at the entry point know what their starting salaries are and their career progression path. An ECDE teacher in Kitui County should aspire, and rightly so, to be a university professor in seven years. However, the situation is that ECDE teachers are being treated badly by almost all the county governments in this country. I come from a county where somebody woke up in the morning and decided to reduce the salaries of ECDE teachers and sent others home without following procedure. The Committee should take this matter seriously. Lastly, Sen. Kavindu Muthama, thank you for daring to open a can of worms because that is precisely what you have done. For daring to lift the lead on the level of corruption and theft of county resources by county governors, their families and cronies through companies that are registered either directly under their names or through proxies. I urge the committee to which this Statement will be committed to invite Senators from all 47 counties to look at the rot in our counties and expose the theft that has been taking place for all these years. I support the Statement and I ask the majority leader to relax. We are okay."
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