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    "content": "when we started introducing the idea of free education. In addition to that, the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) came in and there were many schools that were put up. As has been put by the Senators who spoke before of me, some of the schools are even making do without even a head teacher who is qualified. Therefore, you can imagine the quality of education in those schools. While education is a right to every student, it is the high time that we should settle down and check on the quality. I support the fact that we are not only going to audit the number of teachers, but also the other facilities. As things stand right now, the Government is talking about building more classrooms and adding more facilities. That means there will be an influx of students. You will realise that many debates have gone on around the world about the issue of whether to have robots teaching, virtual learning or in this case, the use of other modes of teaching away from the teacher. However, nothing else can replace the human resource factor. That is why, right here, we are saying that when we talk about the issue of the teachers and distribution, it is itself an uphill task. Many of my colleagues have spoken. I do not want to repeat that even when we talk about distribution, it may not happen without proper legislation. I am of the idea that if we have a committee, proper legislation and policies, then this issue will be concluded. In addition to this, there is lack of coordination in the counties because when you go there, you will be told that nursery schools are overseen by the county governments. They say they have nothing to do with the primary and secondary schools, which belong to the national Government. I support my colleagues that we need to devolve education, particularly the infrastructure. Maybe the national Government should retain the manpower so that we are sure that there is proper distribution. I support this Motion with amendments. Even if we will not clear with it right now, we can come back next year and ensure that we expand it to include infrastructure and many other things which have been bringing negativities into the education sector. We talk about Vision 2030 and making our country a middle income economy, but we may never achieve that without quality education. We will all the time talk about access and transition. We do not want our children to become just statistics. We want quality education. I support."
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