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    "id": 729607,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "County governments have been charged with putting up classrooms for nursery schools while the NG-CDF does the other things. You find that county governments have done very little in putting up classrooms and the most vulnerable nursery school children are in the worst classes in schools. The upper classes pupils are in the best classes. It should be the opposite. The small child is left vulnerable to pneumonia and other dirt-related diseases. Learning becomes very difficult because of the poor infrastructure and the general poor learning conditions. There is also the issue of the teachers who teach these children. The ECD colleges are spread all over the country and most of them are private. Some of them are run by quacks and others are located behind slums or dingy areas. You will find very big graduation ceremonies being conducted in the village and when the graduands finally come out, you realise that they had D + (Plus) and D – (Minus). Even with such poor grades, someone can still say, “I am a graduate of ECD.” They are then deployed to teach our children. The ECD teachers are supposed to be properly qualified. We need people with proper training on how to handle small children because we expect them to lay a good foundation for our children. In as much as we are trying to promote education and other things in this country, if we do not lay proper educational foundation for our children, we shall be bringing up half-baked leaders like the ones we are reading about in newspapers. It will be very tricky to let this country be run by such kind of people. I support my colleague. Indeed, these institutions should be properly monitored. We should focus on the little ones, so that we can give them a good foundation. With those few remarks, I support the amendment Bill."
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