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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, first and foremost, I wish to thank my colleague Senator for bringing this Motion. Right from the onset, I want to state that I support it. The building of capacity for development of this country is a very urgent matter. It is more urgent now that we are beginning with counties so that we address the issue of capacity building by building institutions. There is no need to build structures. We have no need for buildings in this case. We need to move very quickly and establish a network in which we can build capacity. The first thing that we need to do is to clean up and modernise curriculums in which we would want to develop and build capacity with the view of looking at the future. We want a curriculum that would bring us personnel that have the capacity to work even in 2050. So, curriculum development is, perhaps, one of the first things that we would need to do in terms of capacity building. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee on Education, Information and Technology had the opportunity of meeting all the Ministers of Education in all the counties. We had firsthand experience of what capacity would do. We met these Ministers and officials from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). It became apparent that we were the ones who were providing the know-how in terms of capacity building. I must say that, at the end of that seminar, the teachers in the counties, Ministers for Education in counties felt much better. Most of them had already been given the function and the money. However, they were unable to employ teachers for Early Childhood Development (ECDE) because they lacked the capacity. They lacked knowledge on when they would do that and what were the consequences. These are the small things that can be learnt if we had an institution for building the capacity. In the matter of capacity, it is not only the workers for the public service that need to be enhanced in terms of capacity. I even think that politicians need to be given some capacity in the way in which we think so that we can move away from some hard-line positions in our political thinking that directly affect development. So, I should expect that these institutions which we are building can be useful to the politicians where we can modernize our thinking. For example, we should be thinking of arbitration instead of radical positions. Even we, as politicians, would benefit from an institution that builds capacity. The unfortunate thing is that while we were in Naivasha with the teachers, the Ministry concerned with devolution itself needed to build capacity of its own in order to deliver. So, it is very important that this capacity building is considered as an all round thing, so that everybody is incorporated and their capacity to deliver is enhanced. This also applies to the governors. I do believe that even the governors of these counties need to stay together, learn from each other and receive new information. New information"
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