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    "id": 112523,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with hon. Ruto that, indeed, we have a very serious shortage of teachers. To be very precise, we have a shortage of 23,000 teachers in secondary schools and 42,000 teachers in primary schools. That gives a total of 65,000 teachers. Now, one of the short-term processes that were put in gear under the Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) was going to employ 12,500 teachers. This has been caught up with a court process which was taken to there by one of our stakeholders. However, as I am talking now, I had a preliminary and exploratory meeting with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) yesterday because of the acuteness of the shortage of teachers. Tomorrow, I will also have a meeting with them in the morning courtesy of the aborted meeting in Naivasha. Hopefully, through the natural attrition and deaths that have occurred, you will be seeing an advertisement by next week inviting teachers to apply so that, at least, while pending the results of the court process, we can replace those who have left through natural attrition and the deaths or those who may have left to seek greener pastures. This will enable us to address this issue on a short-term basis. Possibly, in the coming Supplementary Estimates and subsequent Budget of 2010/2011, we may have to revisit this ESP and see how best we can handle this. Indeed, I have no points of dissent with the hon. Member."
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