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    "id": 698276,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rotino",
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        "legal_name": "Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to what my colleagues have said about this important Bill. This Bill is long overdue. This sector has been neglected for a long time. We have concentrated on primary and secondary education. The ECDE sector is important too because it is the basic training for the children and we should regularise it. The Bill provides that ECDE should be compulsory, which is very good. Some of us from the nomadic communities will tell you that the distance between one nursery school and the other is important. Penalising a parent for not sending his children to school when the distance between his homestead and the school is about 10 kilometres will be unfair. We should consider the distances between the ECDE centres and the homesteads so that we can constitute a penalty that is commensurate to that distance. Counties are paying salaries to ECDE teachers in a very haphazard manner. There is no standard salary payment to staff. Some are paid a monthly salary of Kshs10,000 while others are paid Kshs15,000. They wonder why they are not being paid uniformly. We tell them that the management of ECDEs is a devolved function and they should refer to their respective counties. We should standardise their salaries. I want to agree with my colleague that we must create a union for staff in this sector. They should have their own way of raising complaints. If we neglect this sector, then we will not unionise it. On sponsorship, most ECDE centres are church-based. They are either established by Muslim organisations or other religious groups. As the children move from year one, two to three, we should ensure that their sponsorship is completely taken care of. We have problems in the sponsorship of these schools. If that is done, there will be no discrimination between different centres."
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