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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "So, we will seek the advice of the Speaker because when you go to Article 237 of the Constitution, the mandate of the Teachers Service Commission is clear. Part of it is that there will be establishment of TSC. It says that the functions of the Commission are to register and train teachers and to recruit and employ registered teachers. Sub-article (c) says: “To assign teachers employed by the Commission for service in any public school or institution.” The big question the Committee is asking itself is whether the ECDE teachers are meant to be employed by TSC. I am a trained teacher by profession. We have ECDE teachers who have even gone to Masters and PhD level and they are registered by TSC. That is where the Bill will turn to become a money Bill, because if we say all teachers should be recruited and deployed by TSC, that then means that the ECDE teachers should be included. They cannot be discriminated because they are trained just like any other teachers. Actually, some of them are better trained. Let me just go back to the Bill. The objects and purpose of the Bill is to provide a framework for the establishment of a comprehensive ECD education system and infrastructure that is needed to support the provision of quality education. It is also to provide the delivery of quality early childhood education and to provide a framework that enhances the quality of efficiency in the early childhood education. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you go back to your village and try and locate an ECDE centre, you will find that majority of them are either privately owned or those that are owned by the public are not well managed. They are left out. Until some of the governors have taken up the role to rehabilitate these schools, they have always been left out. The big question is: Are we serious with education as Kenyans? The foundation of education is at the ECDE centres at the early childhood level. The Government should be more serious to take care of the ECDE centres. The whole push and pull on who should be responsible should stop. We should advocate for all the ECDE centres to enjoy free education. The guiding principle we have is the constitutional right to free and compulsory basic education, but you find that in a lot of the ECDE centres, the parents are paying. It does not make sense for you to pay for a child when they are in nursery school and when they get to class one, the Government provides free The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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