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    "id": 698372,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/698372/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Most important, some of us come from rural constituencies and one of the problems that we have seen that besets the provision of free basic and compulsory primary education is the fact that it is difficult to identify where those pupils are. There are some parents all over Kenya who, to date; have not appreciated the importance of education. If we are to provide free and compulsory basic ECDE throughout Kenya, then we have to involve the people who live in villages. It is high time this country recognised that village elders provide vital services in our country. If you go today to your constituency, a good village elder has a statistic of almost everything that happens in the village, including the number of children who do not go to school in that village. It is a contradiction that, as those people offer those useful services, up to now, no one remunerates them. I also appreciate the fact that this Bill provides for the teacher to child ratio. It is a given fact that the lower the education level, the more the contact hours the pupil needs. I want to believe that at this level, when the regulations are finally made, the teacher to child ratio should not be more than one to twenty five."
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