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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, education is one section that we have to be very serious about. I appreciate the youth because they want to move fast and make money. But they lack somebody to tell them that they can study for their degrees and masters for up to six years, and come out better persons. They will make their money for many years to come and build themselves better. Most of them do not have guidance also to say “you have a talent,” or “you are a musician,” or “it is good to go now and build your talent; go into an academy that will build you to become a better musician,” not just to sing songs, but also to inspire people, but you can educate them through the music. But in terms of education, it is very hard to find a musician today who sings a song that can even inspire people. This is true for both the gospel as well as the secular songs. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we talk about the polytechnics, especially in western region, our people are likely to suffer more because we have refused to listen to our good professors. We believe we can work very fast and become rich. If you get money very fast, you will also spend it very fast. This is one thing in western region that we need to rethink. All leaders in western region must stand up and look at what is wrong with the education sector. Our education standards have continued to deteriorate for a long time. Busia and Kisumu counties used to perform very well in the national examinations, but today, things have changed. Students in Kisii and Nyamira counties are notorious for cheating in national examinations. Many students in those counties get their results cancelled and they are taken to court for cheating. Therefore, we need to know why these things happen in those counties. I urge that the recommendations in this report be implemented. I wish the Committee now take charge of this report and present it to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof. Kaimenyi. He needs to do a serious analysis from ECD to secondary education, especially in western Kenya. The rate of enrolment from ECD to primary school is low. Why is this? Did the governors and other elected leaders tell you why we have low turnout when it comes to the next level? This is something that you need to give him so that he is able to work out and understand what the problem is. I know governors will take the issue of ECD very seriously. I say so with a lot of confidence because I know even the Governor of Kakamega County, hon. Oparanya, had budgeted for ECD. Some money will go towards payment of ECD teachers. He has also budgeted for food. Children in ECD programme needs to be fed well so that they concentrate in whatever they are being taught. However, there is conflict between the national and the county Governments which we need to address immediately if we have to move forward with ECD. So far, I do not know where they have reached, but they need to move very fast and fund ECD programmes which had been neglected by the national Government for many years. Madam Temporary Speaker, I urge the Ministry of Education to seriously take ECDs as the foundation stone of our children’s education. They must make sure that our children get a firm foundation in education through ECDS. If they do not get proper foundation, they will not cope well when they enroll for primary school education. In psychology, we say that we have different levels of development. The critical level of development is when a child is between one to five years. This age is very critical because that is when they are learning everything. For example, they learn how to control 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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