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    "id": 1196188,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1196188/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Malava, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Motion as amended. I would imagine that TSC had a very good idea when it came up with the teacher delocalisation programme. I think the challenge has to do with how they managed the whole process. I imagine that one schooled in a particular school from class one to class six or seven or eight. He then proceeded to secondary school in the same school, if the primary school had a secondary school; and subsequently went to college. When it came to posting, the teacher was posted to the same school in his home village. We know how the villages are. We come from particular clans and particular tribes. This teacher, coming from the same community, will not grow. He will not expand his knowledge. We have to share. Even when a village is exposed to some foreign culture and different kind of behaviour, it can self-reflect on how it goes about its life and may be change. However, the whole process of delocalisation of teachers by TSC was implemented in a way to punish teachers. If you look at other cadres of employment, for example, when it comes to posting of nurses or police officers or veterinary officers, there are no complaints as is the case with teachers. Hon. Temporary Speaker, TSC must reconsider the plight of teachers. I am supporting this Motion with amendment. I know that the academic calendar for schools is ending in November. I urge that the TSC immediately reverses all the transfers it effected by December so that the affected teachers return to their initial stations and then we relook the whole policy and programme of posting teachers. The connotation of the term “delocalisation” is in itself negative. Who are you delocalising, to where? All of us are Kenyans. Where are you delocalizing one from, where to, and to which kind of region? If you are delocalising someone and you take him to another region, it becomes very negative to this person in that area. They really have to reconsider this issue of delocalisation. The Basic Education Act says that pupils in primary section, like our pre-units to class four, must be taught their mother tongues. When it comes to delocalisation, you delocalize a headteacher. In my case, the teachers who have come to my area of Malava are from Bondo. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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