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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "Last week during an induction training of my Committee in Naivasha, we invited the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Dr. Nancy Macharia. She outlined a few things that she is doing with her Commission to see to it that this challenge is addressed. One of the things that is being done – even without responding to Sen. Cherarkey’s issue – is that there are teachers that were teaching in secondary schools before, especially diploma holders. These teachers have now been mapped and are being posted to junior secondary schools in primary schools. They are already teaching in primary school. There are also very many other P1 teachers that have studied, especially through the model of school-based curriculum at the university. We have very many graduate teachers in primary schools. These are the teachers that the TSC CEO says are being mapped for posting to handle the secondary school curriculum that is being offered by the Junior Secondary School. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also wish to join Sen. Cherarkey even as you consider referring this particular Statement to my Committee. We have challenges. This year, we have only one cohort in junior secondary school, that is, Grade Seven. Next year, we will have two; Grade Seven and Grade Eight. Next year but one, we will have three cohorts; Grade Seven, Eight and Nine. That will be like a complete secondary school in primary school. I want to call on the Government to allocate more resources to TSC because we must recruit teachers who are trained to handle secondary school curriculum in big numbers. They say that if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. We should not plan to fail. We should plan well in advance. I wish to also comment on the second Statement that Sen. Cherarkey made about drought in the country. We have been talking about this issue in my Committee. The other time, we invited the Cabinet Secretary (CS) to come and shed light on the School Feeding Programme (SFP). Mr. Temporary Speaker, it was the feeling of many Members in the Committee on Education that we need to re-look at what we call Arid and Sem-Arid Lands (ASALs). For example, Murang’a County has no area classified under ASAL, but we have a very dry area that should be classified as so. Areas such as Kakuzi Ward, part of Makuyu Ward, Ithanga Ward and some parts of Ithiru Ward should be classified as ASALs. I am supporting Sen. Cherarkey that we should see what we can do to mitigate the effects of drought. This is not only in ASALs, but also in some other counties where everybody else thinks that they are comfortable and where there are some areas specific areas that are suffering from this drought. I rise to support the petitions by Sen. Cherarkey. T"
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