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    "id": 1202146,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dorothy Muthoni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Like everyone else, let me take this early opportunity to congratulate you on your election as the Hon. Speaker of this House. I also wish to congratulate the President and his Deputy for being duly elected to serve Kenyans for the next five years. Today is a very special day for us as teachers of this nation because we are celebrating the World Teachers’ Day. It is important to note the very important role that teachers of this country play. When I look around this House, I can proudly say that if 68 per cent of the legislators sitting here were in my village, I would have taught them some two years ago. The theme of today’s World Teachers’ Day is: ‘The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers’. This is one reason why I would want every Member who can read and write to thank our teachers in a very special and small way. I know we are all agonising because of the looming hunger in our country today. Teachers bear the biggest brunt of watching and seeing the suffering of young ones. Young children report to school every morning and it is the responsibility of the teacher at that level to ensure that learning takes place. Today, the messages I am getting from across the country are that teachers are only doing the tender care of ensuring that children who come to school without any meal are given glucose to, at least, keep them in class. I want to thank His Excellency the President for ensuring that relief food that was flagged off has reached the hard- hit areas. I want to implore those entrusted with the distribution of the food to ensure that it reaches schools. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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