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"content": "disadvantage and where equal opportunity means equal facilities and equal availability of human and fiscal resources. If we may remember, in the last Parliament we had an issue here which caused a rumpus in the country. We saw in a school in Turkana County where an administration police constable with a Kalashnikov on his shoulder was purported to be teaching children. Those children certainly could not have been learning. First of all, to have somebody with a kalashnikov in front of you instills fear more than inspiration to learn. It was a Government public school and it had no teacher except that administration police constable who doubled up as a security officer and a teacher. A child in that school will be sitting for the same exam with a child from Kilimani Junior Academy. I have nothing against Kilimani Junior Academy. I am picking on it because it is a school that performs well in comparison to the same plane with children in areas where when a child wakes up in the morning, he does not know whether to carry a bottle of water or a book or to meet a bandit on the road. We have seen cases where children are in class and in the middle of it, banditry attacks strike, raping young girls, bastardising teachers and doing all manner of things. At 50 years of independence and a in country that has the dubious distinction of having more millionaires and billionaires with ill-gotten and inexplicable wealth than any other in the region, we have no excuse collectively to have schools like the school I saw in Maikona or the schools you find in West Pokot, Turkana, Kitui and Bungoma which is supposed to be a rain secure county that has had several advantages above others; but you still go to a school with two streams of children from standard one to eight with three or two TSC teachers. However, when you go to Bungoma Municipality, this is a school that has an establishment of 12 teachers but it has 24 teachers. So, the issue is not the lack of teachers per se ; it is poor management of education. If you are the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), you do not need rocket science or a Motion from my brother, Sen. Khaniri, to realise that a school with eight classrooms and 1,000 children should have enough teachers. This is the problem. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also have the issue of employment of teachers. My friend, Hon. Sossion, told me through natural attrition, the TSC loses an average of 5,000 to 6,000 per annum in death, dismissals from misconduct and retirement. Then you will find, in a year, the Government employing 10,000 teachers. So, in effect, you are employing 5,000 teachers. I fully subscribe to the philosophy that any teacher in any school found fiddling with young girls in Standard One to Standard eight deserves instant dismissal. They should not be given any opportunity to get anywhere near children. There was one time, in my law firm, when a male teacher walked into my office in the morning with a lot of sweat on his office. He said: “I want to see you.” I said: “But you are already seeing me; sit down.” He said: “I have been unfairly dismissed. I have been framed. It has been alleged that I slept with a young girl of Standard Eight in my school.” I asked him: “Did you do it?” He replied: “No!” I put him in my car, called my friend, Mr. Lengoiboni, and drove to the TSC. When Mr. Lengoiboni saw us he said: “This man is here!” He knew him as a notorious and habitual offender. Finally, they had caught up with him. They dismissed him and took him to court. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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