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"content": "Some of the innate effects of this discrimination is that the teachers finally have reduced morale to work. When teachers who are teaching our children, and looking into the growth of the youth and our children, into becoming hardworking and serious adults in this country have no morale in work, this directly affects the growth of our children, and finally affects the growth of these young people into the adults that we are looking forward to having. Madam Temporary Speaker, another net effect of the discrimination in this hardship allowance is that finally those areas end up with staff shortage. This is because, a number of teachers are not comfortable in those areas, and as a result, they continuously seek transfers. This even leads to high turnover. In the teaching profession, there is need to have harmony in the kind of personnels that attend to children, so that learning can effectively and efficiently take place. For learning to take place, and our children to get knowledge, there should be some consistency and progress of the teachers that teach these young people. Madam Temporary Speaker, another serious net effect of the discrimination of the hardship allowance is that, it has even led to a number of resignation of teachers. Remember, for one to have gone to school to be trained into a teacher, that was an investment by the community and country. So, when they resign, it means we are lacking that kind of knowledge yet Kenyans invested in the training and education of these teachers. Madam Temporary Speaker, another net effect of this discrimination of teachers is that, a number of teachers end up deserting their work stations. A number of teachers have been depressed. I have often dealt with teachers who had hardship allowance in their previous stations, but when they are transferred to other stations and they lose it, they lack even minimum salaries, and can no longer support their livelihoods and those of their families. This must be addressed. Part of the way forward that this can be addressed is that, the Ministry must relook at the categorization of regions into hardship and non- hardship allowance. Madam Temporary Speaker, secondly, the Ministry must look at the existing disparities. In the report, as I second, I also notice that the Ministry of Public Service and Human Capital Development had formed an inter-agency technical committee to look at the issue of the disparities. I noticed that there is a further disparity even in the formation of the Inter-Agency Technical Committee; that, in this Committee, there are representatives from the Ministry of Public Service and Human Capital Development, the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, the Ministry of Education, the National Treasury and Planning, the Judiciary, the Public Service Commission, the Teacher Service Commission, the Salaries and Renumeration Commission, the Commission on Revenue Allocation, the Kenya Bureau of Statistics, and the Council of Governors. I did not see the mouthpiece of teachers, that is the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET). Madam Temporary Speaker, in this period of inclusivity, the Ministry needed to have a non-inclusive inter-agency committee that would speak for the teachers, even as the other stakeholders dealt with their mandates. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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