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    "id": 1212505,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "As the Senate Majority Leader has submitted before this House, there are benefits that come with teachers being transferred to their home areas. Equally, there are benefits that come with teachers teaching from far flung areas. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the policy, as it has been put, has got its own challenges. Majorly, it is the foundation which led to the discussion and a very lengthy conversation about the ability of the teacher to teach in places where they are even unable to get places of residence. For instance, in my county, there are schools where principals or head teachers of such institutions are unable to get places of residence and are therefore, assimilated by the community. It takes a long time for them to adopt to the kind of environment that they are expected to live in. As a consequence, their ability to deliver and work within the institution is hampered. Similarly, we have got statistics from among our members of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), where somebody who has got one or two years to retire from the teaching profession is sent to a place where they cannot not get means of transport. When we speak to such issues, you realize that the policy has been applied not for purposes of the benefits that comes with it but as a tool for punishing some of the teachers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the position that has been taken and the communication that came from TSC that this ought to have ended by the 31st of last month has not been achieved. I am aware from my county for instance that over 85 teachers are stationed in one county called Bungoma. Instead of them teaching, their business has been to camp at the regional TSC offices as they wait for delocalization back to their areas of residence. That has hampered their ability to teach. They have been unable to even learn how to serve in the places where they are supposed to be. As we wait for the TSC to issue a statement or a report as we have been notified, they should also be able to fast track and process the applications which are pending so that teachers who have made applications are allowed to go back to their places and are"
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