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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "It is a Luhya folk song. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think we should make use of all our human resources in the teaching profession. I am quite sure that if we opened our doors even to pastors--- A lot of people who were teachers, like my father, went on to become pastors and clergymen. We have a lot of clergymen in this country who are very good speakers on Sunday. Why do you prevent them from teaching in schools during weekdays? Let them go and teach Christian Religious Education (CRE) in schools! Why do you have to train people in Bondo Teachers College to go and teach CRE when you have a whole range of pastors in Bondo who have been trained in CRE from various denominations: The Nomiya Luo Church, Anglican and Catholic Churches? They can go to those schools and give various versions of the Christian knowledge, not just one version from a teacher who was trained in one training college. So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like the Ministry to open up their minds to the human resources availability in this country and use it to augment the number of teachers in our schools. If you go to places like the USA, the number of teachers who teach in primary schools are not just the people who are fully employed there. They have people who teach part-time. I once taught part-time in a college in the USA and I was not a regular lecturer there. But I was hired part- time to teach a specific course. If we can have part-time lecturers and professors teaching these private universities, like Catholic University and the United States International University--- They depend a lot on part-time lecturers and professors. The core staff in those institutions is very small, but they hire all kinds of people, even from other universities to go and teach there. Why can we not use that concept in our primary schools? We should get a retired teacher living nearby, who used to teach mathematics in a certain school and give him the responsibility of teaching mathematics. Just pay him for that, do not pay him all overheads, like what and what-not because he has already retired. They will augment the number of teachers we have in schools and the shortage of teachers will be reduced drastically. With these few remarks, I beg to support!"
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