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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "seen counties employing teachers and giving them letters designating them to particular schools with no provision that they may be transferred to other ECDE establishments. Clause 22 mentions that such teachers must be qualified and registered by the TSC but there is little mention of the curriculum standards of training teachers that must also be provided for. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Part IV on the management of these institutions, the Bill is just a cut and paste which is wrong and unhelpful. For example, Clause 29 is lifted to standard Bills about boards of management. When the Bill says that the board of management of an ECDE establishment will have the power to borrow money. What are they borrowing money for? These are small institutions which are funded by the county and have no pressure to borrow because, for example, the classrooms are built by the counties. Therefore, such innocuous provisions should not find a way in this Bill. In Clause 29 (2) the Bill states that- “The board of management shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall in its corporate, be capable of- (a) suing and being sued; (b) taking, purchasing or otherwise acquiring, holding, charging or disposing of movable and immovable properties; (c) borrowing of money; (d) entering into contracts, and, This is totally misplaced. This is because once teachers are recruited by the county governments or TSC, the board of management will have no business entering into any contracts with them because they are standardized and managed by the public body; the TSC. (e) doing or performing all other things or acts for the proper performance of its functions under this Act which may be lawfully done or performed by a body corporate”. This kind of drafting is borne out of lazy minds; it is just a cut and paste scenario when we are legislating. We should be more innovative in bringing provisions of the law so that the purpose of the law is to create order. Where a law is moribund, it is meaningless to the society."
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