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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "One of the key functions that forms the basis of our lives and that of our children is basic education and this is there in Article 53(b) of the Constitution. Apart from the right to nationality, name and recognition and family, one of the key aspects is the right to basic education. Article 53 has been well captured and it has been given some breadth of life by the County Early Childhood Education Bill (Senate Bills No. 26 of 2018). I know that most counties have enacted, in their own way at county assemblies, various legislations that regulate how ECD’s operate. ECD has been a serious issue at the grass root level. I want to agree with most of my colleagues that the foundation of any child in his education life is key to the success of both primary and secondary education which also includes higher learning or college education. Any child who has had a proper foundation in terms of basic education will always have a better understanding of anything that they encounter either at primary or secondary level and that is key. In this country, ECD has been taken very seriously. When I was growing up, the only thing that you could do at ECD was mould using clay. In those days, they used one’s height to clear them to move to the next class and one needed to touch their ears to qualify class one. Unfortunately, because of my stature, I almost stayed in nursery school for five years. Therefore, I think that this is the right law for us not to have, so as not to ask our children to hold their hands across their head to touch their ears for them to be cleared to move to the next class. I did not know that education was about the mind and the capacity of understanding. I used to think that it was mechanical but I now agree that it is good for us to have the law in place. I support. The Bill is to provide a framework for establishment of development, culturally and linguistically. I know that there was a Petition that was brought by the great people of Homa Bay, where Sen. M. Kajwang’ hails from, on the issue of linguistic. I remember my parents telling me that they used to be taught in their local dialect. As a country, when we lose our identity, we no longer have a signature of who we are. I want to commend the Chairperson because by including this aspect of culture, we will be able to understand where we are coming from and where we are going. It will also help us to understand the reason as to why we are different. We will understand the reason as to why I come from a certain part of the country and why you and Sen. Mwaruma come from a different part of the country. As a Senate, we are giving meaning to our identity and we should respect the diversity that we have as a country, going forward."
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