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    "id": 1113444,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113444/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Florence Mutua",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Florence Mwikali Mutua",
        "slug": "florence-mwikali-mutua"
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    "content": "There were too many pregnancies and too many issues that happened to our children. We therefore must celebrate our teachers who are more than second fathers and second mothers to our children. They are our moulders and we must celebrate them. The other issue is delocalisation. Delocalisation breaks marriages. Some teachers are newly married and when they get jobs, one is posted to Kitui and another one is sent to the Coast region. So, the family being the basic unit, we must ensure that this is reviewed. I must inform Members that we are actually looking at the TSC Act afresh, so that we ensure that some of these things are looked at before the end of this term. We are happy that we have all the commissioners on board now. Some of these things will be easily fast-tracked so that we ensure our teachers are happy wherever they are. We have teachers who have stagnated in one grade for even 20 years or more. We are also looking at this as a Committee to ensure that our teachers progressively move forward in their jobs. There are hazardous areas. When we speak of their pay, it is so little. We need all these things reviewed and as a Committee, I can assure Members that we are looking into this. It was unfortunate that Hon. Omboko’s petition was taken to court. It was going to cure the issues that we are talking about. We cannot allow teachers to be deducted about Kshs6,000 from the little pay they have yet they were not even informed and there was no public participation with regard to that issue. It was unfortunate. We hope that the courts will give a way forward on that. When it comes to issues of infrastructure, I must assure Members that the Ministry of Education is doing the best it can to have classrooms built. My appeal to Members is that when we are doing the supplementary estimates, support us as a Committee to be able to hire enough teachers. We need about 10,000 teachers so that they can be put in the various constituencies to be able to cover…"
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