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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "favours of those within the authority of county governments. This is one thing that should be flagged out strongly as this law moves on. I also want to speak on the payment of teachers. The law needs to come up. I think we shall talk to the Chair for such amendments to standardise the pay for the ECD teachers so that it is not determined by how rich or poor a particular county is because the variation in payment is dependent on what the county government determines. Let us standardise their pay and curriculum so that all the ECD teachers have a standard pay and do not depend on how the county government decides. Furthermore, there is the infrastructure question, which the Member for Lamu spoke about so sentimentally. It is an issue which again, together with the Chair and working close with the Committee, we should try to bring in this particular law, a standard way of funding infrastructure for the ECD centres. This can be done by the national Government giving a grant to county governments with specific instructions that this will be for infrastructure. This will bring up several good structures for ECD institutions within our schools. As it is, the ECD structures are dilapidated. They are not there. It is like it is not mandatory that county government should build them. It builds them when it wants and does not build them when they do not want them. Finally, there is the issue of salaries for ECD teachers. We have realised that when it comes to salaries for the ECD teachers, nobody seems to care. We are proudly paying our gardeners far much better than those with whom we entrust the minds of or young children to, the ECD teachers. This is a question that I want to invite the House to deal with more strongly, so that we can get a structured way of paying the ECD teachers. With those many remarks, I thank you for the opportunity."
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