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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The first question is on delocalisation. As all Hon. Members are aware, this was punitive. It is something that led to the breakdown of families. We reversed it and told teachers who wanted to go back to their home counties to do so. We have transferred quite a number of teachers to their counties of origin. I do not have a specific figure now, but next time, I will give Hon. Members a specific figure of the teachers who have been transferred due to the policy we have now as opposed to delocalisation or nationalisation. We want our teachers to teach comfortably from their home counties or any other county of their choice. It is ongoing and there are teachers who have chosen to remain in the counties where they had been transferred to. Again, we cannot transfer all of them back to the exact schools they were teaching because we have to look at the staffing of a particular school before we transfer them back. For example, if we have a mathematics and physics teacher and we find that the school of his or her choice has a mathematics and physics teacher, we take that particular teacher to the nearest school of his or her choice. I assure the Members that this exercise is ongoing. Concerning the question by the Member of Parliament for Kitui South, Hon. Racheal Nyamai, we set a criterion when we were establishing junior secondary schools. The guiding principle in order for a school to qualify as a JSS, basically, was enrolment. Does it have enough students? If we find it has, probably, five or ten students and that there is a school nearby which can accommodate a JSS, then we call that particular school which was not viable a feeder school. We assessed 32,000 primary schools and out of the 32,000 public schools that we assessed, 23,000 public schools and 5,000 private schools qualified. In total, we have 28,000 primary schools which qualified and are hosting JSS now. Hon. Members, where you have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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