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    "id": 951363,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wilson Sossion",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for granting me this opportunity. I rise to support the Bill before the House and thank the Departmental Committee on Education and Research for strongly concurring with the originators of the Bill - the Senate. This is a very historic Bill particularly in the history of education and development in this country. The very strong foundation of education is in quality ECD. In the event of a nation running a poorly managed ECD system, then it progressively has challenges across the board in education. Looking at the history of the efforts the country has made, this Bill should have come immediately after the Constitution was promulgated because it was captured in Sessional Paper No.1 of 2005 to mainstream ECD by 2009. By 2009, indeed, there was in place a scheme of service for teachers. But after the promulgation of the Constitution, there has been a lot of push and pull on what to do with ECD. There has been a lot of injustice and, therefore, there is need to have this Bill fast-tracked and properly implemented. There are a lot of challenges in the ECD sector. Quality comes out very strongly and everyone has talked about it. There cannot be quality ECD without quality teachers. Therefore, the Bill seeks to try to address that. Quality education is dependent on quality teachers. I believe after the enactmentof this Bill, it will be legally clear on the minimum standards and minimum 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."
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