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    "id": 950962,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/950962/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "the simple reason that science has proven that children who get a good foundation always succeed in education matters as they grow old. If you miss out on the foundation, you will not catch up as you grow up because attitudes are formed at that formative age. If nursery school teachers do it because there is nothing else to do, we would have lost it as a country. We need to see a situation where nursery school teachers are the most qualified people as it is the practice all over the world. In the United States of America (USA) and United Kingdom (UK), teachers handling the lower primary are more qualified. Some of them are doctors. Most of them have master’s degrees and few have bachelor’s degrees. That explains why research is more successful in those countries because they appreciated and discovered the formula. If you go to the Netherlands and other countries which have succeeded, the best countries in education in the world, have invested heavily in elementary education. I am glad my colleagues have pointed out issues which have been so obvious to all of us. If you go to the counties, the investment in elementary education is wanting. You go to a primary school; county governments have put in a lot of money. If you go to the books of accounts, you will be shocked that one nursery school classroom cost between Kshs1 million to Kshs3 million yet in the NG-CDF, we use between Kshs500,000 to Kshs1 million depending on the location. If we can use that kind of money to do quality classrooms, then somebody must be sleeping on the job. Either, we are not getting value for money or there must be some explanation. It cannot be different and yet it is in the same compound and environment. One arm of the Government through the NG-CDF uses less than half the money used by county governments. Somebody must be held accountable. I have a gut feeling we are misusing the money and not getting value for money. What makes it worse is that most ECD classes that were started by the county governments are not complete. Not long ago, I was in one of my schools in Kisii Nyaribare Chache Constituency, and was shocked to be asked to do ECD classes in Nyanchwa. I told them this is a function of the county government. Teachers and principals at the lower primary do not seem to appreciate the functions of the county governments and the separation of power and responsibilities."
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