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    "id": 631227,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/631227/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 232,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I prefer that I speak on the issue of the ECDE teachers from Laikipia County. The Committee on Education has already proposed and discussed a Bill on this issue. According to the Bill, the ECDE teachers will be paid by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). In our deliberations, we realized that a teacher is defined as somebody who discharges the teaching activity in a classroom. Since the ECDE pupils are seated in a classroom designed for teaching purposes, the person who teaches, therefore, is referred to as a teacher. That is one of the mandates of the TSC, to make sure that all those teaching in the country are employed. The TSC is supposed to recruit and define remuneration. In this case, therefore, the petitioner should wait for the Bill to see what will happen after it is assented to. After that, the TSC will be mandated to pay the ECDE teachers. Likewise, Mr. Speaker, Sir, the definition of a classroom, which is the infrastructure that the petitioner is complaining about is also well defined in the Bill. The Bill states that a classroom should be the best classroom model in a public school. We have stated that the moment you get to any school, the best classroom that you should get to see is the ECDE class. I am, therefore, imploring on the county governments to make sure that they come up with the best classrooms which will accommodate the ECDE pupils. My Committee has toured several number of counties and we have seen that effort has been made---"
}