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    "id": 441264,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to speak on this very important Report. It is very important and in fact, I want to congratulate the Committee on Education. I think they have been very proactive and within a very short space of time, they have criss-crossed Kenya really knowing the problems being faced by the county governments, the people of this country, the teachers and the students at the grassroots level. I really want to commend you for that. The importance of this Report as I see it – I do not come from the coast region – as I go through it, I realize that what they have recommended for the coast region as solutions to the problems they are facing are really cross cutting issues. You could remove the names of all these counties and put there Busia County and the Report will still be valid for Busia County. I want to focus on the ECD Programme which the pre-primary and, of course, a function under the Fourth Schedule of the County Governments. When I was doing my campaign and so on, that is when for the first time I came across the problems being faced by the ECD teachers, what is happening on the ground and so on. That is a much neglected area. Although it is a function of the county governments, the national Government cannot wash its hands off it particularly in terms of setting the education policy and the standards which will apply throughout Kenya, which is a function of the national Government, what I get from here is that there are really no standards in the counties and teachers teach what they want. Some counties, particularly Lamu, do not have a single college for training of ECD teachers. That is why for Lamu, you can even read that the teachers there cannot control their pupils and lack the skills to teach the children. At least in Kwale and Mombasa, there are some training colleges for the ECD teachers, but Lamu and other areas, there is nothing. This means that any person who has either failed the examinations or any person who went up to Standard Seven and could not sit any examination at all, has his only hope as an ECD teacher at the local level. 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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