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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "We should provide in this Bill, that as far as is practically possible, ECDE establishments should have a basic nurse to help look after these children. Where counties have an endowment of resources – like Nairobi, Narok or Mombasa, the counties with big, attractive and alternative sources of raising resources can do it. Gradually, this Senate can actually obligate the national Government to give conditional grants to counties to take care of this kind of requirement. This is so that when children go to school, like I said earlier, you start it early, you get it right and you have good children going to school. This is because when a child at the age of four or five goes to school, it must find the school better than home for them to like the school. However, if you take a child to school and it gets there and the school looks horrible and unacceptable, that child will rebel himself or herself from school forever. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is also not provided for is that we have some teachers with propensity for cruelty and they never care whether these are little children or not. They just enjoy punishing children. I believe in discipline, like we all do, but there could be a provision given which outlaws ill treatment of children. Ill treatment is not necessarily physical; if the children are supposed to have a cup of milk, they must have it. You may have situations – I have seen it – where some teachers have even been prosecuted, where milk meant for the little children in school is ferried home by the teachers at the expense of the children. That is a criminal offence of theft. Therefore, we should have provision where discipline for the management and discipline for the children is also the same discipline for the teachers. In fact, for the teachers, you should then put proper sanctions of law where a teacher carries away materials meant for teaching aids in school or where a teacher carries away provisions of milk or water for the children. There are many people with criminal minds out there who we need to check. Not everybody is a criminal, but out of every ten, you will find one crooked character who thinks that what is available for the children is better available in his or her home. We, therefore, need to deal with such people as well. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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