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    "content": "increase in the enrolment in our primary schools from 67.8 per cent up to 92.9 per cent. Enrolment has almost doubled in our primary schools and secondary schools. The time has come, under the new Constitution, to expand the meaning of basic education. We need to include FPE as well as Free Secondary Education (FSE). When you look at the Early Childhood Development (ECD) section, up to now, the Government has been promising to integrate the ECD in our education structures. The Government promised to do this last year. There are so many little kids, over 2 million in number, in our ECDs. We have young people who are teaching these kids, but they are not paid by the Government. The Government promised to put them on the payroll, but it failed to do so in the last Budget. We believe and hope that the ECD will be integrated so that the young people who join our education programmes at the tenderest age are also brought on board. If we want to achieve universal primary education right from Early Childhood Development (ECD) up to the secondary level, then we need to invest more to ensure that, indeed, every child born in this country is able to exploit their God given potential without being limited by the pockets of their parents. The background of the child should not determine the success of the child; its ability should do so. For us to achieve the universal primary education goal under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) this needs to be done. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my other friends have already addressed the other issues. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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