Dr. Agnes Zani

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• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: bidhaa ya mwenzako halafu humrejeshei, utaulizwa mahali umepeleka bidhaa hiyo. Inapaswa iwekwee mahali fulani ili mwenye bidhaa hiyo aweze kupewa baadaye. Nashukuru kwamba Sen. Madzayo amelileta jambo hili hapa. Nina hakika kwamba huyu mama Kadzo Karisa Kalu, si yeye pekee ambaye ameathirika. Pengine pia kuna wengine ambao wamepata shida kama hizi. Kwa hivyo, hizi shida ziangaliwe kwa urefu na mapana ili mambo kama haya yasiregelewe kiholelaholela, hapa na pale, wakati wowote ambapo watu wengine wangependa ifanyike. Asante. view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I beg to second that this House adopts the report of the Committee on Mediation on the Early Childhood Education Bill (Senate Bills No. 26 of 2018). This is really an exciting moment for the Members who are currently serving in Senate Standing Committee on Education and those who served the 2013 to 2017 Senate. This Bill was conceptualized in 2014. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: The ECDE is a devolved function to the counties. On the other hand, we have the Basic Education Act No.14 of 2014. After the Committee on Education had gone to the various counties to see how the setting up of these ECE centres was being done, we felt there was a need to understand how they were being embraced. This is because some of these centres were stand-alone in both private and public schools. For example, some of them were within schools that already had primary section. Madam Deputy Speaker, it was very exciting to hear, for example, some of ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: advice on how to proceed. In between moving from one county to another, we managed to have a Zoom meeting in December. Sen. Omogeni, thank you for chairing this Committee. He did exercise his senior counsellorship skills very well. There were heated moments. Everybody was sticking to their particular points of reference. However, somehow one way or another we were able to just go on certain decisions and make certain conclusions that were very key. Madam Deputy Speaker, the Members in the National Assembly who were also part of this mediation process were Hon. Wambugu Ngunjiri, Hon. Daniel Tuitoek, Hon. ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, sometimes it was really difficult for us to end up with the version of the Bill that we wanted because there were certain technicalities. I want to give the general approach to the mediation because what exactly happened in the Committee has already been covered by Sen. Omogeni when he was moving it. view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: There were times when, for example, one House had a specific position, but the technicality of the mother Bill, which is the Basic Education Act and the provisions that had been put there, meant that if there were certain changes that had to be made, they would have to be made from the original Act itself. We decided to go into this mediation, complete it, and maybe some of these technicalities could be done as amendments to the Basic Education Act on various components that are very important. We proceeded to do that. view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, when this Bill was introduced in the Senate for the first time, we had a situation. It started from the Senate and went to the National Assembly. The National Assembly passed various provisions from this Bill. In Chapter two of this Report, we have that provision of some the arguments that we had at that time. Going through it, on page three, there are various clauses. When this came to the Senate, the Senate already agreed on certain provisions. For example, Clause two, eight, running through the various clauses that are there and moving on to the ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, when we come to Page 16 of this Report, after the Bill had come back to the Senate from the National Assembly, the Senate also agreed to certain clauses. From the Senate to the National Assembly, they made their amendments. When these amendments came back to the Senate, there are certain provisions that were not problematic. For example, Clause 2 was agreed to. This basically had to do with the issue of aligning our language. Some of the issues were technicalities of aligning our languages. The Senate was using the word “pupil” and the Basic Education Act ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: dispute. The first clause where there were differences in how we were looking at things was Clause 27. Clause 27 looks at the issue of whether a public institution can be converted into a private one. The Senate took the position that once a public institution has been put into place, it should not be converted into a private one. The National Assembly also took the same position, but they added that the County Education Board must make an approval for the same. The Senate wanted a situation where nobody else can ever turn a private institution into a public ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: PTA must have a say within ECDE centres, we finally resolved and the Senate’s position was upheld. Sen. Omogeni had already gone through this, but I will mention Clause 36 in summary. We had the role and responsibilities of the TSC. It meant that we delete a particular clause, because that role had already been allocated. The National Assembly suggested that the role of the TSC and the requirements for qualification had already been put as a separate part of the Act. Putting it in again as (a) and (b) of defining those same qualifications, would be problematic. We, therefore, ... view