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    "id": 203387,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/203387/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will rise as the Assistant Minister and not as a Member of Parliament representing Maua or Tigania. I will try. In fact, I explained to the hon. Member that I will be as professional as I am required to be in dealing with this matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the District Education Board (DEB), Meru North, met on 6th August, 2007, to deliberate and endorse the merit list of the 254 candidates selected for the district on the basis of guidelines provided by the TSC. However, the members could not agree on the distribution of the candidates and hence they failed to ratify the merit list as required, just like the hon. Member has said. (b) The TSC, in the year 2007 advertised 254 vacancies to the larger Meru North District. The newly created districts like Tigania and Igembe lacked the necessary infrastructure to carry out the recruitment exercise. In future, the new districts will be allowed to carry out their own recruitment when vacant posts are advertised. According to the recruitment guidelines issued this year, a district merit list was to be prepared and tabled before the DEB for ratification. The guidelines further stipulated that candidates were to be selected based on the year of graduation and quality of professional certificate. (c) Though the Meru North DEB did not agree on the composition of the merit list, it has, however, submitted to the TSC a merit list of 764 short listed applicants. The Commission will use 3966 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES September 18, 2007 the merit list to appoint 254 candidates to fill the advertised positions. Thereafter, appointment letters will be issued to the candidates and they will be deployed by the District Education Officers to work in the old and the new districts based on the degree of under-staffing. Ntonyiri Constituency, which the hon. Member represents, which is in the new Igembe District, will benefit from the appointment of the 254 teachers as the deployment of these teachers will be based on the level of need of each division of the wider Meru District."
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