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    "id": 1196601,
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    "speaker_name": "Daadab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "result, 3,000 young men and women, who were trained as teachers, were withdrawn from colleges and could not be absorbed by TSC. Teachers from other regions could not come to teach in our place because Nancy Macharia says there is insecurity. I grew up soon after Independence and I know what discrimination is. I know what nepotism is. In 1978, 38 A Level streams were approved by the Ministry of Education and 34 of them were in one region. The rest of the country boasted only four streams. We need to have a united country. We need to have a country where every person feels proud being Kenyan and does not have any hard feelings because, under the leadership of a section, nepotism, tribalism and regionalism is exercised on him or her. When I saw this Motion for the first time, my gut inclination was to oppose it, because it is only going to take care of the few teachers we have back at home. The majority of teachers still teaching in schools in the north and pastoral-nomadic areas do not come from those areas. But then I realised we already have a situation in which all teachers have been removed. They might as well remove the balance and then we begin looking for a way to cure that problem. We can then recruit and train teachers. We can do what we have to do to give education to our children. So, I will support this Motion. But let me tell you one thing: Delocalisation, properly exercised, is good for this country because it unites the country. Like I told you, my first teachers were Meru and Pokomo. The first man who taught us in Garissa in the 1960s was called Zachariah Marete. I am inclined to say we should put up a statue for him as a sign of respect. We cannot do that because of my faith. He will always remain in our hearts and minds as somebody who sacrificed for a section of this country. The way to unite this country is to inculcate in the minds and hearts of Kenyans at that young age the fact that they belong to one identity. I went to a national school. I remember how it was. I relate with everybody we were with at the time as brothers, though many of them have passed on. It is important for us to integrate the country. But at the rate things are being done by TSC, a new policy has to be developed to see how everybody benefits from the Independence we have had for over 60 years. Countries where slavery was practised, like the US, have affirmative action through quota system. In 1993, I moved a Motion that was passed by this Parliament on affirmative action through quota system. One institution that immediately implemented it is the Kenyan Medical Training College (KMTC). You cannot talk of merit when there is no equal opportunity in education. For the benefit of Members much younger than me and who were not in the 7th Parliament—I was one of the youngest those days—the Motion got the support of both sides of the divide. At that time, I was in the opposition. I was the only Member of Parliament from the north who was in the opposition, but I got support from both sides. It was a very difficult task for an opposition Member’s Motion to be supported by the government side. Everybody’s heart was moved when I told them that year only one student from schools in northern Kenya was admitted to university."
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