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    "id": 207355,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/207355/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muchiri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Local Government",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Muchiri Geoffrey Gachara",
        "slug": "geoffrey-gachara"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the three minutes. I want to add my voice that this is a Motion that ought to have come earlier. The issue of early childhood education cannot be under- estimated because it is the foundation of education in this country. We know that for anything to succeed, you have to start from zero then move on to the higher level. I just want to ask the Government, which I am part of, to do a bit of work on pre- primary education because this is one area which is bothering our people in the countryside. Due to poverty levels, many Kenyans cannot afford early childhood education to the extent that the children receive half-baked education. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also feel that it is necessary for the Government to plan how to take over payment of early childhood education teachers so that the education cycle can be complete. We are thankful to the Government because it has given us free primary education and we are hoping that by 2008, secondary education will also be free, particularly the tuition aspect of it. So, it will be completing the cycle of education that we are asking that early childhood education be part and parcel of the education system. Therefore, the amendment to the Act will go along way to achieving that end."
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