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    "content": "standards of care and training that is required of the State. This is informed by the fact that free primary education is not a walk in the park. It is a conscious decision by the State that it must of necessity be in a position to support these children to grow up like other children in the same circumstances within the same county and within the Republic of Kenya. That is the premise upon which this was predicated. At the time when I was in the Ministry of Education, we had about 24,000 primary schools but we now have about 30,000 primary schools and correspondingly, there has been an increase in the number of secondary schools. Recently, there was a policy enunciation by the Ministry of Education where they said that one of the features that we must look at is both access to education which must be provided for by the State at the very basic point, which is at the primary level. We are soon going to move down to the Early Childhood Development (ECD) level because that is where acquaintance with learning starts. If children miss this step, then they have been discriminated against and that is one point that we must make. The second point is that the resources for primary sector education can only go to a few schools which lead to others being marginalized. There is a third compelling reason as to why the State must change the policy of registration of schools. Currently, the Members of Parliament at the National Assembly through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) are creating more institutional facilities in terms of primary schools, health centers, boreholes and water points. They use the resources of the Republic of Kenya and the county governments also do the same with the ECD classes. These children are condemned to a desert if Government resources are spent in putting up these facilities yet they are denied the right of accessing or triggering off other resources in those schools and this is where this Senate must rein in. An issue of this nature and capacity needs a change of the rules and the regulations governing how schools are registered. There must be certain basic standards that must be set up. The classrooms that have been put up must be of basic standards so as not to put children in premises that will collapse upon them and cause harm. We must rein in on the people who are putting up these facilities and they must meet a certain standard just as they do for any other facility available in the county. I agree with that. Secondly, is the issue of building pillars simply because of the numbers of children who are in that school like what happens in nomadic areas where children are moved from one level to another. What are you going to do with them? Are you going to say that they will not access education? It does not require a Motion in this House to change that rule. If the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Education is listening today, I would want to advise her that this is a question of looking at the rules and effecting the change in those rules for there to be a complete change and access be given for other facilities."
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