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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity so that I can add my voice in support of the Bill. I, however, see quite a number of challenges in my constituency, as well as the other constituencies that I have visited. Let me start by saying something about the teachers. The teachers we have for ECD are, in a number of cases, just picked from amongst the population surrounding the centres. They are not well trained. Therefore, they are ill-equipped for the exercise they are required to undertake. When I say that, I mean there are certain variations. In some centres, there are well- trained teachers while others do not have. We are creating a difference in standards when we start our children off in education. Therefore, I would like a lot of emphasis to be put on the training the teachers who are going to start off our children for our future. The other challenge is that the teachers we have in the centres are either very few or non- available for those institutions. Some of those institutions are closed because there are no teachers. Where there are teachers, they are very few in terms of what they are required to do. The other challenge is that some of the teachers do not have adequate education for that kind of work. I, therefore, feel that the right thing is that TSC should take them over. That is when we can have uniformity within the nation. I want to also address the issue of the classrooms where the children are taught. I heard some of my colleagues say that some classrooms are dilapidated. That is probably generous in 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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