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    "id": 1109330,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1109330/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Despite poor equipment and infrastructure, some of the schools that these teachers have to serve from are worse, a classroom looks like a toilet or is worse than a toilet, yet our teachers still put on a brave face. Our teachers have to wait for seven years to be employed. Right now, the pipeline of applicants to Teachers Service Commission (TSC), if you have not been out for more than seven years, you cannot get a job at an interview, yet our teachers still retain their patience, wait patiently on the queue and once they get an opportunity to teach. They do an excellent job without asking for kitu kidogo. Finally, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we celebrate the day of teachers, let us reflect. Kenya is packaging a deal with the United Kingdom Government, where nurses will go to the UK, they will be paid a good salary and part of it will go to the Government of Kenya. Cuba has done a similar thing with doctors from Cuba coming to Kenya. It is like an export. Our extra reservoir of teachers - the graduates who are waiting for TSC to absorb them - could we package them, so that we can export them to countries in need like South Sudan? Could we package these graduates who are still waiting for the TSC to absorb them so that we can export them to countries in need like South Sudan, Rwanda and Uganda that require Swahili teachers and skills in other sectors? We need to be creative. Having these teachers unemployed for too long is a disservice to them."
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