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    "id": 950981,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garsen, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Guyo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ali Wario Guyo",
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    "content": "I want to thank the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research for trying to rectify this mistake. Secondly, I want to speak about education in general from the point of Arid and Semi-arid Lands (ASAL) and pastoralists’ children. I am speaking about them because they are children whose livelihood is determined by the climatic condition they live in. Therefore, there are gaps in law. I read the Omingo Report of 1970, the Koech Report of 1980 and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report of 2000. All are highlighting very key basic issues on education like issues to do with enrolment and retention. How do you address enrolment when you do not have an appropriate policy governing the early childhood education system in the county? Examples are Tana River, Lamu and Garissa. For the last 40 years, these counties have been leading from behind in national examinations. This is not an accident. It has been happening for 40 years. What is the Ministry of Education doing? Why can they not research and come up with appropriate policies to address this? Why can they not do an affirmative action to address the issue of children failing in ASAL counties? It is because of negligence and impunity. That is why children in Tana River have been leading from behind for the last 40 years and nobody cares; not the President, not the Deputy President or the Minister for Education. Nobody cares about the suffering of the children of pastoralists of this country. I hope this policy will give us hope. Regularising early childhood education will go a long way in solving the problems facing the pastoralist children of this country. With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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