Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 698337,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/698337/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 204,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chumel",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 318,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Chumel Moroto",
        "slug": "samuel-moroto"
    },
    "content": "Another problem is that we usually take our children to private ECDE centres where we pay more. I do not believe that there is an MP here who has a child in a public ECDE school. We always carry our children in a vehicle all the way to school. Some others airlift their children to school where they learn in comfort and come back in the evening to the village where they do not interact with the others. If we could just come down and ensure that, as leaders of this country, we put more attention to this area of education, I know we will have good people. As we say, when a child is brought up well, we are very likely to get good people in the society. Even now, as we are seated here, and this is something that is mixing us up--- I know at one time, it might come up clearly. With regard to power connection in our schools, the Government, most times, goes round saying that it has connected, say, 90 per cent of our schools with electricity. However, there are some areas in this country where there are no electricity lines. We need to be sincere about what we do, so that we can walk the talk. On recruitment, I want to encourage that we let the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to take over. That way, it will be a smooth affair right from the ECDE level all the way to the university. If we segregate and say that this is a lower level and so we should not care, there is nothing we will be doing. As one of my colleagues has said here, you will find that there is a school where you pay an ECDE teacher Kshs500 only, and the one in primary school is paid about Kshs20,000 and given other goodies. Let us resolve that the TSC should take care of the recruitment of teachers. The community should also be encouraged to support the education of those children. I support. 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."
}