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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the way the national Government was also recruiting polytechnic teachers and the way they were giving remuneration was so haphazard to the extent that it was all about who you knew in the higher levels of the Ministry of Education. This should not be the case. We should come up with a policy such that if we say we are funding 50 or 100 polytechnics in every county, they should be standardized. We should not have polytechnics in Nairobi being given support grants by the national Government while the others are not getting it. There are six village polytechnics in West Pokot. Two of them are getting little grants from the national Government. The rest do not get any financial support from the national Government. There are over 700 nursery schools which are not being supported by anybody. Madam Temporary Speaker, in supporting this report of the Standing Committee on Education, Information and Technology, this Senate must pronounce itself on the issue of ECD. How do we want to move forward? What is our anchor? What is our vision? We have talked about Vision 2030. By 2030, those children who are in nursery schools will be over twenty years old. Some would have finished university education. We would have wanted to see people coming in to implement these policies and moving on. We need to start right by planting the right seeds now. The syllabus to be taught needs to be prepared as soon as possible. When the Committee summoned the Cabinet Secretary and his team, seemingly nobody had a syllabus that is standardized. That is why this Committee is visiting various counties so that we propose legislation which will help us move forward as far as ECD is concerned. Madam Temporary Speaker, in supporting this report, I want to urge hon. Senators that once we visit their counties to avail themselves so that we look at the issues together. By so doing, they will have a chance to contribute accordingly because without education, we will not develop our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, in this age, I long for a time when the people of West Pokot will begin to value education like they value cows. They can only do so, when we have schools and teachers to take them through the syllabus and so on. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to stop there. I support this Motion. I hope that all of us will contribute and pass it. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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