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    "id": 951019,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": " By any chance, Hon. Kioni, I am the second one to contribute. I want to bring to the preliminary two critical things. One, Parliament, that is, the Senate or the National Assembly, is over-legislating for counties, which is something we need to observe. We are bringing in too many legislations which are supposed to be done by the county assemblies. The Constitution is very clear that county governments are distinct. Each one of them has its assembly to do some of these things. In as much as we are talking about standards which are really a benefit that we are seeing in this Senate Bill, there are many others that we are doing which should be done by the county assemblies. They will not be doing much because we are over-legislating. We are telling counties what to do with revenue, how to raise revenue and how to do other things. There is a problem there. The other thing is that the Constitution indicates clearly that there are functions that are distinct. There are those that are placed with the county government and those placed with the national Government. In as much as they are distinct, the Constitution allows that a government on either side can play the functions of the other government. The issue of the ECD is one of those functions that the national Government and the county government ought to have demonstrated how they are able to share a number of things. What we call ECD teachers, for example, are teachers. The role of recruiting teachers, disciplining, transferring and all those things that pertain to teachers belongs to the TSC. The TSC ought to be in charge of teachers in ECD centres. For purposes of knowledge, ECD teachers are qualified to teach what we now call PP0, PP1 and PP2 or Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3. That means that while we have a big shortage of primary school teachers in many of our primary schools, ECD centres have teachers who would easily double up to teach up to what we could be calling Class 3. So, teachers are teachers and they are supposed to be under the TSC. In as much as the ECD programme is under the counties, the purpose and the role played by the TSC needs to be done also by teachers at the ECD centres. That is one critical thing. The resources that are going for purposes of ECD teachers to the counties need to go to the TSC such that it is the TSC that recruits, transfers and disciplines teachers such that ECD teachers are able to serve under what we call the headmasters or headmistresses for all primary schools."
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