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    "id": 185165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bifwoli",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 208,
        "legal_name": "Sylvester Wakoli Bifwoli",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I take this chance to thank you for recognising that I have been a teacher for the last 30 years, and spent most of my life in teaching. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we talk about education, we are talking about making a human being. Making a human being means developing the mind, the body and the soul. To develop the mind, the teachers are supposed to teach the child, and they must be motivated. They must be well paid. They must have a good environment. The child also must be in a good environment. This is the reason why some of us are saying that telling teachers to sign performance contracts, is just not possible. I want to tell the Minister to forget about teachers signing performance contracts because it is not possible. They may sign it, do the schemes of work and lesson plans, but they will not teach. That is because what you want is the signing of the performance contracts. What is that? Secondly, this is the Ministry that can make this nation by producing people who are patriotic. How are people going to be patriotic if a teacher, as Dr. Eseli has said--- A child learns in Bungoma, is trained in Bungoma and is employed to teach in Bungoma. You want that man who has lived in Bungoma throughout his live to be patriotic and national. This Ministry has the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). The TSC should employ teachers nationally and post them across the country so that they can balance. This idea of teachers being employed by District Education Officers and Boards of Governors--- Some people who are illiterate cannot interview teachers who have gone to school for 12, 14 or 20 years! It is wrong for a teacher to be interviewed by somebody who has never gone to school! You are killing the morale of teachers. People do not even wish to be teachers. It is sad to be a teacher these days because you are interviewed by somebody whom you know failed his or her exams. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to talk about Form I admission. Form I admission must be done nationally. Finally, I want to thank the Minister and urge him to recruit and employ Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) teachers. This Ministry should be given more money than it has been allocated. With those few remarks, I support the Motion and urge the House to give the Ministry more money."
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