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    "speaker_name": "Wajir South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mohammed Adow",
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    "content": "keeping us in schools. School meals really contributed to many of us remaining in school because of the abject poverty most of the people there were living under and still do to this day. I am in support of this Motion, but we have even a more pressing problem in North Eastern Kenya because of the action which the former Government took two years ago. With a stroke of a pen, 5,000 teachers were recalled from the region because of insecurity. Today, almost every other school is manned by one teacher. In my constituency alone, we have a shortage of 300 school teachers. Some of the schools in my constituency are manned by one teacher and some of them have been closed. This is quite unfair. We are bringing up a lost generation which has been forced to go through the steps of schooling for those two years, but have learnt nothing. We are appealing to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), because I do not know what else to call it because this is marginalisation that is being brought through the back door, after we thought the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution had done away with that practice, which had been visited upon us by the previous regimes. What we need is a return of teachers back to the schools so that the young Kenyans living in that part of the country can get education. We have…. I thought I had 10 minutes Hon. Temporary Speaker!"
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