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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the two Petitions and I will start by supporting the Petition which was read by Sen. Mwaruma. In this country today, our teachers are suffering. I have been agonizing on what to do on whether to bring another Petition here because of the welfare of the teachers. We have over 30,000 teachers who have died and their families have not been compensated in accordance with the law. We pass laws in this House. We have the Public Service Superannuation Scheme (PSSS) Act which we passed to ensure that there is no personal liability or disability, but the teachers are never compensated. Now, we have a crisis where everybody is talking about the challenges that the teachers go through in North Eastern. The teachers have been crying to the TSC and asking to be transferred from there. Today, we have another challenge for teachers who are living in very dilapidated hardship areas like Taita Taveta and Narok County. These teachers are the ones who are responsible for us to be here. We do not care about our teachers. It is about time that this House prioritizes these teachers. Whenever I go back to my rural area and I meet people who taught me; persons who I believe are the ones who contributed to my being here, I feel very sorry for them. So, I want to support this Petition. I hope the committee that will look into this issue will extend it to other parts of this country. For example, Narok County, Kajiado County, Lamu County, Garissa County and Kitui County. We just need to be realistic. I like the fact that everybody is aware of this. In 100 years, none of us will be here. In 50 years, maybe most of us will not be here; we will be gone and in 100 years, we will be forgotten. Therefore, let us do something so that the future generations will think of us positively and say that we supported our great grandmothers who was teachers and could not get houses and trekked or used a motorbike to go to school to be able to make sure we had good leaders in this country. I call upon the TSC that if there is an agreement that you have passed, why not commit to it. Why are we having this bad behaviour where we are quick to sign a covenant, but then we are very fast in running away from it? I fully support this Petition. Now I go to the second Petition, which is of paramount importance. A few years ago, we had a very interesting situation in this country, Nairobi City County, when the former Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko was impeached by this House. In fact, I will go on record and say I did not vote to impeach him. Some of the challenges we faced while impeaching him is that his deputy whom he had chosen as per the Constitution had resigned. There was no law that could address that lacuna. However, we referred back to the law and asked ourselves what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they said that a person to be elected as a governor had to choose a running mate."
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