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    "id": 951422,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Butula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Oyula",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph H Maero Oyula",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to also contribute to this important Bill. For a long time, ECD education has not been covered by any Act of Parliament. So, this Bill is very timely. It needs to be passed by this House. There are various areas that this Bill will help Kenyans. The standards will be improved and we will have regulations and rules governing the operations of the ECD centres very well. I thank the Committee for coming up with a very comprehensive Bill that covers all the areas, including infrastructure, health of the young children and the curriculum for the ECD centres. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will note that because of lack of a legal framework, many stand-alone ECD centres were constructed by people who did not have any idea of education. They did that because they wanted to make money and were idle in their homes and wanted a place where they could play around with kids. So, not much attention was paid to ensure that the ECD classes are properly constructed. I believe that with this Bill, the stand-alone mabati classrooms will be demolished so that we can have proper and standard classrooms. In public primary schools, county governments provide only one classroom for ECD and yet, the population of the ECD children is very high. One classroom can have over 100 children. That is not reasonable. I am sure that with this Bill, there are going to be a lot of changes in the ECD education. We need to make sure that we have inspectors who go around ensuring that the regulations as set out by the Bill are followed to the letter."
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