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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Looking at the policy on recruitment of teachers, it appears, on the face of it, to be very good. However, there are two problems which need to be addressed. All the teachers being recruited have passed through teacher training colleges. In fact, for primary school teachers, in particular, the P1 teachers, some of them have gone through Government teacher training colleges. They have gone through practicals. I remember I was a pupil in a school which used to host these teachers, and they are graded properly. The ideal situation should be that when teachers are trained and subsequently have their TSC numbers, and they have graduated from colleges, they should be absorbed on a first-to- graduate, first-to-enter/recruited basis. When you then create another thing you call a subsequent interview, we are merely creating an avenue for the officers undertaking the recruitment to get money from whoever has the money and whoever does not. We have cases in the country where a person graduates like within this year, and the following year he or she is recruited. Others are taking over 10 years to be recruited yet these are people who have been trained on practical teaching. So, there is unfairness to a large extent. In fact, they are forgotten completely. Secondly, there is a reason why the recruitment of teachers is spread across counties. You cannot be saying that in a constituency like Homa Bay Town, because it is called Homa Bay Town, there are no indigenous communities. I can confirm that, and it is something that I took to the Departmental Committee on Education and Research before Hon. Florence Mutua took over the leadership of that Committee, that for the past several years, if you ask for anyone who has been recruited in that one clan called Kanyada constituting Homa Bay Town Constituency, you will find nobody. The TSC leadership are not indigenous people. So, what has been happening, as Hon. Kamket says, is that you will get people being recruited from elsewhere, they will stay within the county for some two to three months and then they get transfers. The local people are doing farming and boda boda business because they cannot be absorbed yet they are trained. The response has come well, and I am very happy that we have a Chairperson of the Committee that can go deep into these issues, but there is need for review. If the reason why this thing has not been fair is the fact that the local people across the country are not going in, then it The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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