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    "id": 1120317,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1120317/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Statement brought to this House by Sen. Mwaruma. I will start by expressing my sympathy to the teachers of Kenya for the situation they have been put in. It is sad that we are now talking of reviewing the curriculum and make it more expensive for the teachers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Madam Deputy Speaker, the Teachers Professional Development (TPD) is ill intentioned. It is sad to force teachers to sponsor themselves on the TPD, yet they are already suffering from lack of salary increment. I wonder why the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the Ministry of Education are trying to capitalize on making personal or ministerial gains from the poor teachers of Kenya. The teachers of Kenya have in the past been forced to go on strike time and again for them to be listened to. How could somebody sit in a boardroom here in Nairobi and make such a decision without public participation with the stakeholders, yet education is a national function? Education is a national function. The teachers and other stakeholders should have been involved in the making of such a decision. The Ministry of Education and the TSC should have consulted the stakeholders through public participation. The proposal of the TPD by the Ministry of Education is dictatorial. There is a lot of dictatorship at the Ministry of Education right from the implementation of the education curriculum to the training of teachers. The Ministry of Education is now concentrating on commercializing of education rather than the benefit of education to the leaners. Madam Deputy Speaker, the teachers of Kenya are parents as well as civil servants who need to be assisted by the Government. The functions and responsibilities of teachers go beyond teaching. Why can the Ministry of Education not make use of the digital forums available? The Senate of Kenya is running its proceedings virtually. Why"
}