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    "content": "education but the current Government has not taken enough measures because we have the Cabinet Secretary in charge of education and we also have policies that are supposed to be used to ensure that education has been fully implemented but very little is being done to ensure that this happens. The Government is watching as the education system of this country is deteriorating. Majority of us have also been untrained teachers after university. It will be good to take advantage of this programme as well as the in-service training of the untrained teachers, so that they come in handy to help with the situation as we wait for the national Government to deal with the issue. As many have spoken, we would later on propose that education systems be fully devolved. I sit in the Committee on Education and we have been visiting different counties. The county governments have done a better job in running Early Childhood Development Education Programmes (ECDE). They are providing infrastructure which the national Government has not been able to provide. There are a lot of loopholes that need to be dealt with. The teachers are not well remunerated; they do not have the morale to teach because they do not get good salaries, yet they do a good job to the citizens of this country. Another challenge is the lack of clear legal guidelines on the implementation of inclusive education and non-formal education programme. The Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education should up his game to ensure that this is done. At the same time, other areas have also been affected. There is a big population of people in class vis-a-vis the number of teachers. Recently, when the budget was being read, the Teacher Service Commission (TSC) was given very little money which is not enough to employ enough teachers. As a country, we need to think on how to deal with the issue of insecurity. If this becomes the order of the day, things will not be better for us. There is a joke that has been on social media that the people who get a mean grade D, D minus and below are the ones recruited to join the Kenya Police Service (KPS), while Al Shabaab is recruiting university graduates. This is because we are not providing employment for the young people and they have resorted to do this kind of job. The Government is aware and they are doing very little to ensure that this has been dealt with. Lastly, I want to appreciate Sen. Abdirahman for bringing this Motion. I believe the Senate will help to ensure that this Motion is passed so that we reintroduce the untrained teacher’s programme that will also enable the disadvantaged children of north eastern region to access education."
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