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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to make some comments on this Report. I am one of the Members of this Committee. I had the opportunity to tour the coast with this Committee. First, I want to congratulate the Committee for the work that they have done in visiting and interacting with the people of the coast in matters education. We visited the five counties at one go and this, I think, is a very good thing in terms of Committee work. Similar problems facing similar counties can be addressed together. This visit, which went through five counties, was very useful in highlighting the problems of education and finding a way of tackling them. The problems we found in the four counties were more or less similar. The only difference was that they were different in terms of their extremes. Tana River County, in reality, has very severe problems which affect education and other sectors of the economy of those counties. They were very apparent in terms of educational facilities which we could see needed to be addressed to provide education. I want to commend the County Executive Committee member (CEC) for Education in Mombasa County, one Mtana Lewa, a very young brilliant man who has looked at education at the coast in totality and drew out a programme which was very impressive. They have already designed how they want to carry out their education. In Mombasa County, ECDE means education of a child from the age of one to eight years. That involves, therefore, children in classes one, two and three. This is in conformity with what education psychologists tell us. Children in standards one, two and even three are still in their early childhood in terms of their education and probably require similar things like the ones between ages three to six. Therefore, I thought that this programme was very commendable. We recommended that other counties look at this arrangement in terms of education so that they produce similar students or standards of education with regard to the same level, throughout. We also saw fairly serious problems at the coast. One of them, of course, was the dwindling number of students. The dropout rates in all the counties of the coast were higher than any other part of the country. I think there are several reasons why we should try and rebut this. One of them was the poverty levels. Although we do not have the figures, this is like a paradigm which arises from different standards of education. There is a high population and, therefore, high level of poverty at the coast. 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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