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    "id": 861478,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to second this Bill because I believe it lays the foundation upon which we should be able to get our educational system running. The early childhood education is the one that has been most abused and mishandled. We are talking about children at the age of four and five years. In fact, some of them from three to five years. Unless we have an organized system of handling these children, it is going to make a mockery of the free primary education later on leading to free secondary education because the foundation would have been very faulty. It would have been laid on awkward premise and therefore people will not be in a position to translate these children into gainful education. Right from the outset, I wish to state that Article 53 of our Constitution gives every child the right to have a name and a nationality. That can only happen if they are in well-established centers because it is one way of doing the enumeration of these children. That Article gives the right to a child to free compulsory education. It also gives right to health and other related facilities and nutrition. Madam Temporary Speaker, you will see where I am coming from. If we are going to establish the early childhood day care centers, then they must have all those ingredients required for the growth of that child. I think we should appreciate one factor; that will be deemed the most captive period of developmental milestones in these children. If we do not do anything more positive - I think our mothers know it very well- that this is the time you are trying to remove the child from the family settings to a day care center where they are going to socially and physically associate with the other children within the community. Just like the concerns of parents are that our children should be in a safe and secure environment, this Bill goes to a greater length in prescribing the type of center we must put up at the Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) level, how they should be built- because they should not be built in the same model as they do with the primary education system. There should be safety in terms of play, how the children run The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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