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    "content": "I do not see why I should help people who want to behave like criminals. I have said that what we have failed to do, and what I am hoping that this Senate can do in this Bill, as small as it is, is to provide basic standards of education and then have all these committees that are so many, with very many people as members, getting allowances to check on basic standards be done away with. We cannot be the ones to provide a framework for people to earn allowances for sitting. We should provide a schedule and say, go and do task x, y or z. We want to see it so that may be in ten years’ time, we can look back and say that we have provided a formula or a method of ensuring that secondary and primary schools education is not a preserve of Senators, leaders or the middle class but every Kenyan should be able to enjoy basic education. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you will be surprised to know that Early Childhood Education (ECD) is possibly the most expensive component of education. People are making money out of day schools, which is a basic thing. To have children who sleep and you teach them the alphabet is costing Kenyans a lot of money because we have never set standards. It is those standards that will make this country great and not committees or county education boards, because in the end, Article 53 says:- “A Child’s best interests are of paramount importance in every matter concerning the child”. Let us make sure that Article 53 of the Constitution of Kenya reflects in the Basic Education Act. I am not satisfied that it does in the present form."
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