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    "content": "I will concentrate more on the situation where this Bill might be misused when it becomes an Act of Parliament to try and remove some functions from the county governments as stipulated in Article 9(2). This has to be read carefully. Maybe, the lawyers will be able to tell us where the tides will meet. If you look at the amendment of Section 26, part 6 of this Bill, of the principal Act, is amended by inserting the following new sub-section immediately after Section 3(3). They have put Section 4 which says:- “Pursuant to Articles 235 and 237 of the Constitution, the Teachers Service Commission shall assign teachers to the public institutions of basic education and training used for conducting pre-primary education, child care facilities, home craft centres and village polytechnics”. I find a little clash on the functions of the county government as stipulated to us under Schedule 4(2), on the functions of the county government. Clause 9 says;- “Pre-primary education, village polytechnics, home craft centres and childcare facilities will solely be a function of the county governments.” This is a section that I would want to be convinced by the Mover of the Motion during his reply where the contradiction might end. This is because I see mischief where this amendment of the Act might end up taking out the powers of the county governments in the management of the institutions that were actually assigned to them by the Constitution. So, the controversy of the Act and Article 237 of the Constitution and Part II of the Fourth Schedule, Clause 9 should clearly be analysed and defined. Otherwise, I find the approach to the regulation of education at that level to be a noble idea when I think in terms of policy and harmonization of education system in this country."
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