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    "content": "infrastructure. We can get the children to start early. But my dilemma was: How do we ensure that these children will actually transit to primary and secondary schools? But this could be a saviour in the sense that if the development of infrastructure and equipping of the primary and secondary schools moves to the county governments, then the county governments can plan in an orderly manner. They will know that we are going to have maybe one ECDE centre per village. Then, from there they will know where these children will move to at the end of the three years or so. They will have developed the primary schools infrastructure and equipped them. That way, we will have continuity and there will be no dropouts. This will improve the level of education and the illiteracy levels will go down. This is because we know very well that education is important in human capacity development of any area. Right now, if you check even within the Government system, there might be a few people from the marginalized or northern part of this country. So, I fully support this Motion where the county government is given that opportunity to develop its own infrastructure. Of course, the key word here is “resources”. There is no need of devolving functions when you have not given them the resources. So, the key word here is “resources” because that is what has been hindering development. We know communities have been coming up with their own institutions, but they have had that limitation. At the end of primary education, results show that some areas perform poorly because of lack of facilities. We now have a chance of remedying that if the Government can provide enough resources so that we can have proper facilities in our schools. By doing so, we shall be in a position where we can compete effectively or reach a level where we can compete with the rest of the country. So, I support the Motion with a rider that it should not only be the functions to be devolved, but resources have to be there. The Government has to develop policies and also do staffing so that we can maintain uniformity. For example, if teachers are trained and employed centrally, there would be uniformity in terms of what they are delivering. Even the curriculum should be centralized. With those few remarks, I support the devolvement of infrastructure and equipment."
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