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    "speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. First, I would like to congratulate Hon. Titus Khamala, for coming up with this Motion at the right time, especially now when we are constituting a new government. We are aware that we have just approved the whole list of the CSs and among them is the CS for Education. I always tell everybody that I am product of teachers. If it were not for teachers, Gitonga Mukunji would not be here in this House today. I am also a son-in-law to teachers. This issue of transfer of teachers is a controversial one. It is sad that we agree that the Ministry and TSC can take the teachers to any part of this country regardless of the pain that their families will go through. I would like to say that it is important to have a policy that will guide the issue of delocalisation of teachers. There should be comprehensive consultation, public participation and inclusion when it comes to the issue of delocalisation of teachers. In the few months of being a Member of Parliament, I have received a lot of phone calls from teachers in my constituency requesting that they be transferred back to their constituency of birth where their families are. It means that the process of delocalisation of teachers has been misused. We have had people who fell out with principals being transferred as a way of punishing them. We have to put it right for the sake of our teachers. What they are paid in form of hardship allowance is peanuts. This Assembly should stand firm to protect teachers. We should ensure that our teachers feel that they have an Assembly that thinks of them. I say this, having in mind the crisis that we have as a country: shortage of teachers. Many parts of the former North Eastern Province and other parts of this country do not have enough teachers in schools. It is high time the Government improved this profession by hiring more teachers. I am happy that the President announced a while back that he was going to do a serious recruitment of new teachers in January. If that is done, we will have a good number of teachers in our learning institutions. 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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