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    "id": 631249,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/631249/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. On the borrowing, I encourage the Committee that will look at the petition to engineer a change in the law and the Constitution. This is for the reason that while the National Assembly approves external borrowing by the National Government, the Senate should be mandated to approve the borrowing by the county governments. That is our primary responsibility. We should protect counties and their governments, including their interests. The second is on ECD classrooms. When the Constitution was crafted, something must have been omitted. To just have moved pre-primary education to counties without taking care of standardization, curriculum development and so on, was wrong. The petition should also be given attention by the Standing Committee on Education and the Bill that the Chairman of the Committee on Education talked about though it is yet to reach in this House. This will ensure that when we deal we ECD infrastructure, the counties can build the basic infrastructure, say, classrooms and so on. However, teachers remain teachers. They must be teachers hired for, disciplined, prompted and paid for by the TSC. This should include teachers of villager polytechnics. It is part of education. That way, we can maintain national standards across the country. Otherwise, some counties which have been marginalized and oppressed since Independence will be hiring standard seven pupils, who are not even trained to teach ECD classrooms and others will hire surplus- trained teachers to teach ECD classrooms. That way, we will distort the standards. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}