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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we noted and recommended that the national Government together with the TSC need to sit down and determine how the TSC units in the county governments can employ teachers and come up with a standard amount to pay them. In Nyamira, for example, we were told that teachers are paid a standard amount of Kshs5,000 each to teach in nursery schools and the parents can top up. In some areas, they are paid Kshs10,000 and those with diplomas are paid Kshs12,000. Those are some of the things that we need to standardize. We need to find out what amount is paid in West Pokot, Turkana and Nairobi. The amount may vary, but now that we are starting devolution, we do not want to leave it that way. We need to make sure that education starts right at the beginning. Madam Temporary Speaker, food is very key to children. Therefore, the county governments need to set aside money or even go ahead to make sure that the committees and parents offer land where they can grow crops and generate food. This is what we saw in Kisumu. The schools should also have clean water for the children to drink. We also need to look at who the management committee members of the nursery schools are. It is true that we do not pay much attention to this sector of nursery schools. Sometimes you will be surprised to find that a very old grandfather or a young man who has taken his child to that nursery school has been appointed its chairman. They themselves have not gone to school. They are illiterate but they are entrusted with the management of that nursery school. That is the way we have neglected nursery schools in this country for many years. But in this report, we are saying that we need to formalize and make things right. Madam Temporary Speaker, during our trip to Singapore, we were taken round by a taxi man and we never saw litter anywhere. He told us that when children are born in Singapore, they are told from the very beginning of their lives to: “Sing Singapore, sleep Singapore and walk Singapore.” This means they are training these children in patriotism so that they cannot throw any litter. The town is clean. The children are finally taught to sing that “I am the only resource for this country” because they do not have cows or minerals. We have everything here to the extent that we are comfortable that we do not know which one to put right. This report says that we need to start by identifying the key resources that Kenyans have. It is not the best climate that we have here. It is not the amount of coal that we have in Kitui County or 100 kilometres stretch of limestone in West Pokot County. What counts is the human resource that we need to look at keenly. Madam Temporary Speaker, with regard to polytechnics; the terminology “village polytechnic” has kicked out all the potential customers in those polytechnics. It is very demeaning. They wake up one day and ask themselves: How can I be referred to as a graduate of a village ploytechnic?” I call upon all the respective county governments to come up with “sweet” terminologies to brand these colleges. For example, Chepareria Village Polytechnic in my county should be referred to as Chepareria Polytechnic or Chepareria County Polytechnic. We must delete the word “village”. The national Government needs to know where those polytechnics are so that they can collect their data in the whole country and then send them to various counties. If anybody from West Pokot County wants to go to Garissa County to learn a given skill he must know where the polytechnic is located. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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