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    "id": 1108607,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, let me join Members in celebrating the good work our teachers do across our country to make our society. The fact is that we are because of teachers and we thank them for the discharge of that noble duty they are doing to make us progress. Hon. Speaker as we remember this day, as a country we need to think very seriously about the environment under which our teachers are working. I am talking about this from the point of recruitment to how we retire our teachers who have served. We need as Members of Parliament to not only look at the law but also ensure the environment under which our teachers are serving is right. We graduate very many teachers after the Teachers Training Colleges (TTCs) but, it takes so many years for them to be recruited to serve and they have to attend interviews again whose purposes we never understand. We have teachers who have graduated but they are taking over 30 years to get employed. They are hitting past employment age before the employment. The salary of teachers is very bad, and delocalisation is there with haphazard transfers. I have very young families serving as teachers in Homa Bay. You get a lady aged below 30 years serving in Homa Bay and her husband is in North Eastern and you wonder how that family is keeping up. All those measures among others are ones which MPs and the society should think about as we review the terms of service of teachers. Look at where we are with teachers right now, like proposing they go back to colleges, and we are even determining the colleges they ought to go to at their own cost without increasing their pay. As we recognise the good work teachers are doing across the country, let us think of the environment under which they are teaching. Let us upgrade them, value their services and as Members of Parliament review what we can do to improve their lot."
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