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    "id": 20731,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wambugu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 149,
        "legal_name": "Clement Muchiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me a chance to contribute. First and foremost, I would like to commend the Member who brought this Motion to the House. I think this is a very serious issue that a country like Kenya or the Government can sit comfortably in office when our children are out of school because teachers cannot afford and are not able to teach. The issue of shortage of teachers in primary schools and shortage of facilities has been a very serious case which has been talked about for many years in this country. Unfortunately, the Government has closed its ears and cannot listen to the plight of teachers. I think and I believe that if this Government is serious, this issue should not be where it is now. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have heard other Members wondering and even asking; why did the Government start a free primary attendance programme? I remember about three weeks ago, the Budget Committee brought a report to this House and recommended that the teachers who are on contract should be employed on permanent basis. Where that money went to, nobody knows! We ask the Ministry of Finance to wake up and give us that money so that those teachers can be recruited permanently and not on contract basis so that our children can continue learning. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very sad that we have teacher training colleges in this country but the fee they charge is too high. Teachers have been paying for their fees in those colleges but when they come out, the Government does not want to take them into permanent employment. We are asking the Government to put its priorities right so that the teachers who come out of colleges are absorbed directly like it used to happen in the old days. Formerly, any teacher who went to any college of any kind was taken straight into direct employment. With all these problems we are getting in this country, why is the Government keeping quite? You are aware that most of our primary school teachers, in order to improve themselves, have gone out of this country to look for better education. Most of them go to Uganda while a country like this with all the facilities cannot even organize for our teachers to be trained locally. Why? This is because most likely some of the officers in Government are the ones who are running private schools in this country. There are some people who do not want the children of the poor to benefit through the public schools. We need to do an audit to know who operates the private schools in this country. There could be Members of Government---"
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