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    "id": 401271,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "The Motion that has been tabled here talks about the national Government doing what it should do because we have moved to devolution. Our country is now run under 47 counties. For that purpose, the Ministry responsible for the standardization of education, research and development at any time should see to it that at any time, education is anchored properly. There is no system of education that has been neglected like the pre-primary education. I have said that because 50 years after Independence, we do not have serious training for teachers at all that has formalized the teaching of nursery school teachers. We know colleges where the primary and secondary school teachers go. However, the foundation stage which is the pre-primary education has been misunderstood. It has been left at the mercy of churches in the rural areas and people who know nothing about children. Children are deposited in classrooms as they wait to join class one. The development of our nation has been spear-headed by people who had a firm foundation in their education. I can compare the way we have treated pre-primary education to the way farming is done here. Every year a new season begins; there is no farmer who goes to broadcast maize in the bush because he would harvest nothing. I also do not know of a farmer who goes to plough without proper preparations, having the right fertilizers and without testing the nutrients in the soil or thinking of how he will irrigate his farm. Farmers who come from the maize producing areas do early preparations. They test their soils and look for all the nutrients required and inputs. That way, they do not go wrong. You will harvest maize. That is why we talk about Trans Nzoia being the national basket. Similarly, in our education sector, the pre-primary education needs to be conducted the same way. When a child leaves his mother or father to go to pre-primary school at any time, it should be better than home. We also say that the primary schools should also be better than high schools and so on and so forth. This is now where we can inbuilt people who are committed to the development of their nation. If you look at some of the places they go to school in the morning, they have some of the most undeveloped infrastructure for schools. You cannot expect anything good to come out of them. These pupils just struggle to move to class one and survive up to secondary school. If we can put it right the way other countries have done by putting a lot of money and time in making sure that the foundation for the children is put right, we will be able to develop. 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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