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    "id": 950951,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/950951/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
        "slug": "daniel-kitonga-maanzo"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. Early childhood education is very important. It is the basis of a child’s education. This is where you encourage a child to pursue education, which is the equaliser of both the rich and the poor. When you have a strong base, it projects a child to greater heights whenever education is needed. Currently, county governments have been handling the matter. They have hired ECD teachers and there has been a lot of disorder in the counties. In a lot of situations, many schools have been abandoned and they do not have proper infrastructure for early childhood education. The environment is not really the best. With regard to the infrastructure constructed by the county governments compared to what we construct with the National Government Constituencies Development Fund, you will realise that there is disparity. This is because of public participation. Some ECD classrooms have been abandoned. In fact, in one case at Wote Town in Makueni Constituency, I had to indicate to the county government that I wanted to complete one of the ECD classrooms which was about to collapse and yet children were using it. Although it had been left out in the public participation, we had to take initiative as the NG-CDF to make sure that there was no accident and we do not lose the children, as we witnessed recently in Nairobi. For that matter, we allocated money and refurbished the classroom. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}