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    "speaker_name": "Mr Julius Migos Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, thank you for that question. This is a follow-up question, for which I have not brought the information with me. I will be happy to provide that information with specific requests of the amount of money that is required to particularly employ teachers who graduated earlier, so that we can cover that space. What I have on record is that we have a shortfall of 98,000 teachers that we need to employ in order to bring the number to an acceptable level. On the issue of teachers who are not able to move from urban centres, there is a policy of transfer. I do not know under what circumstances a teacher would be transferred and not move from a particular school to another. I will find out whether there are specific teachers who have not moved when they have been transferred from urban centres. We will liaise with TSC to deal with that issue. I do not know that teachers can decline to move when they have been transferred because their letters of employment indicate that they can be transferred from one school to another. It is true that there could be areas with more teachers than other areas because of some discrepancy. That is why I indicated that TSC normally undertakes a rationalisation exercise at the end of every term, during the school holidays, to ensure that proper balancing is done to also deal with issues of retirement and exit of service through natural attrition, among others. Hon. Speaker, on the specific issue of transferring of five teachers from one school without replacing them, we need to respond to it based on the circumstances of the case. It could be that it relates to rationalisation – a situation where there may have been more teachers than the school required. If we get the specific details, we will respond to it specifically. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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