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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, with this beautiful Motion, Sen. Karaba is trying to say that the national Government must make sure that we train special teachers to cater for the pre-units or pre-schools. Madam Temporary Speaker, why do we have the variance in performance between the rural schools and the urban schools? It is purely because of the pre-units. In the rural areas, the pre-units are non-existent. Why do I say so? If you go to those rural setups, the teachers are the students who finished Form Four and who never even excelled; maybe the best they scored were Ds. Then they are told: “The best you can do now to assist this village is to teach or take care of a particular pre-unit,” which is just next to the homes. So, those young children are condemned in terms of the material they are getting because the person who is giving them the education or who is trying to nurture their talents did not even make it in the “O” Levels. So, ideally, you are just telling the children from that level, before they even know how to speak, that the best you can do is to condemn them. Madam Temporary Speaker, with this Motion of Sen. Karaba, we are supposed to get relevant teachers and people who are qualified to teach the pre-units; people who have qualified to know that they can nurture some talents from as young as maybe two or three years; people who are qualified to know that a particular child has now qualified to go to Class One or to Class Two. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we talk about the infrastructure to cater for the young angels of our country, again, we find that those children in the rural set-ups are condemned. I am sorry to quote a case like Murang’a, where Sen. Karaba comes from. In fact, we have read how Ahadi Kenya Trust performs well in the jigger infested areas. They will tell you that some of the areas that have a lot of problems are the pre-units in the rural set-up of Murang’a; because children are just condensed into the classrooms where even the floor is non-existent. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is the right time for the Senate to make sure that we compel the national Government, because it is their duty, to make sure that there is adequate and right infrastructure for the pre-units. A young child will definitely want to rest; a young child will want to drink water; a young child will want to exercise the brain as they grow. Up to now, I can recall that when I was quite young – although we never had the infrastructure, but I can still recall what we were kneading with mud. I can recall what I kneaded the first time I was in the pre-unit, and I did not even have a short. But up to now, I can remember that I did something which was a resemblance of a cow because that is what I was seeing. Later, I graduated and started modeling cars simply because I had seen a car passing by at one time. 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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