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    "id": 297934,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at Part III of the Bill, it is very important in terms of discipline. Generally, it talks about discipline in the teaching profession. I think many have talked about the discipline of teachers. I am happy that if you look at the Third Schedule, the Bill has analyzed some of the disciplinary offences. But I was just concerned about some of them such as negligence of duty, lateness to duty, chronic absenteeism, desertion and drunkenness. Those are some of the offences that have been highlighted. This calls for what my colleagues have talked about, monitoring and evaluation. This really tied up with performance contracting, which is going to reduce some of those disciplinary cases. Almost in all of these issues of disciplinary cases, what has been lacking there before is the TSC trying to discipline teachers under those categories that I have mentioned. They have been taking them very far from where the headquarters of the supervising agency is located. You will find teachers who have been found not to be conducting themselves properly with respect to those disciplinary cases being taken to very remote areas as a disciplinary measure. I do not think that is good because you are now taking them very far from supervision. These people really require close supervision. Therefore, they should even be brought closer to the monitoring or supervisory agencies. If you take them, for example, to these Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) areas, nobody will supervise them. You will find a teacher who has been accused of negligence of duty, laziness to duty, drunkenness or chronic absenteeism being transferred to the very remote area in that district – about 100 kilometers away from the DEOs office or the Ministry’s office. By so doing, I think you are even encouraging him or her to go and continue with that behaviour because he sees his seniors maybe once in a term or a year. So, it should even be the other way round, they be brought very close to the nearest school to the supervisory agency."
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