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    "speaker_name": "Hon Titus Khamala (",
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    "content": "Temporary Speaker, I also want to thank you immensely because, being an educationist, you understand where we are coming from. You have a history of our education system and I am proud that I replying to this Motion with you as the Chair. We have heard so much from Members on the issue of delocalisation. One Member spoke immensely about us just running with an issue. You know we have become a society that is reactive as opposed to being proactive. We would not be here today debating on this Motion on delocalisation if the TSC was handling teachers professionally with stipulated rules. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have heard Members give their contributions and about 99.99 per cent have had an experience from their constituencies including the suffering and the challenges teachers are going through as we play our representative role. As Members of Parliament, when our people face challenges and problems, they look to us as leaders to offer solutions. It will be very important that going forward, we look at this issue holistically so that we fix this anomaly once and for all. Members of Parliament cannot be aliens in the offices of TSC. I am so happy to report that I had a very fruitful meeting with the regional director of TSC for Western Region in Kakamega together with the County Director for the first time. I was able to sit with these two wonderful ladies. We spoke on issues concerning our teachers staffing where I even lamented. I reported to the office that my constituency, Lurambi, which has Kakamega Town, has become a dumping ground. You find teachers who have medical conditions being dumped in Kakamega. God forbid and I pray that everybody is in good health; we do not want to have a situation where ailing teachers are put in one area. We want to support our teachers but we also want the employer to be alive to the fact that you cannot have teachers with medical conditions just put in one place. In the process it will make that place a dumping ground for teachers. We have work to do in this 13th Parliament to support our teachers, to make sure that the employer is not a bully. We must also look at the elephant in the room. Since we, as Members of Parliament, represent Kenyans we must also look at the elephant in the room, these teachers who are also our voters. Where is the problem within the TSC? We should perhaps go for the leadership of the TSC. If the CEO of TSC was not running that Commission as a personal property, we would not be here today discussing issues of teachers. So we shall not be afraid. Remember Joseph was in Egypt and there was a Pharaoh who knew him and favoured him. However, there came a time when that Pharaoh died and there was a new one and the new one did not know anything about Joseph and the story of the Israelites. Hon. Temporary Speaker we are the representatives of the people and the TSC cannot have one person bullying teachers left, right and centre as we sit comfortably when our teachers are suffering and are being mistreated. Those days are gone. We are in a new dispensation and the rule of law has to be supreme. Hon. Melly was the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Education in the 12th Parliament. He was such a great guy; he was very approachable. We want our committees in Parliament to be strong so that we can call these civil servants to be responsible and accountable. I am grateful and I want to donate a little time that is remaining if you allow me. I want to donate to Hon. Zamzam, Hon. Wambilianga and…"
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