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    "id": 1196152,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Agnes Mantaine",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 420,
        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me time to contribute to this Motion on Review of Teachers Deployment Policy. I want to speak on this delocalisation because it affects our teachers and schools. Education is an important aspect in the development of our country. Teachers play an important role in our education sector and in the handling of our children. I support the Motion on Review of Teachers Deployment Policy. I emphasise that delocalisation impacts negatively on the performance of our teachers. It affects teachers because it removes them from their comfort zone and takes them to where they are looked at like newcomers. Some of them are almost retiring. This means that it breaks their families. Teachers cannot afford two houses. They will have one at home with their children and the other one where they will be posted. In the areas they go to, they are viewed as intruders because they do not belong to that place, and it is not the community that requests them to go to that school. I come from Narok North. We have a history of 10 teachers who committed suicide just because of delocalisation. They are affected. They are stressed but they cannot discuss that issue with anybody. The TSC and the Ministry of Education do not read from the same script. We are eagerly waiting for the new Cabinet Secretary for Education to come and solve some of these issues that affect education in our constituencies. The TSC does not want to listen to the teachers. They want to make sure that once you have been delocalised and received your letter, yours is to go. You cannot even talk about your illness, even if the place you are going to is not conducive for your health. Therefore, I support this Motion and ask the TSC to make sure that they consult the Ministry of Education and make their decisions together. This is because the delocalisation policy was not brought to other stakeholders so that they could discuss and agree on what was good for the teachers. It was done in isolation, and I do not think it was for our good. With those few remarks, I want to support the Motion. Thank you."
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