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    "id": 304949,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate my learned senior and teacher for chaperoning through this very important Bill. In doing so, I want to say two things. One, my learned friend, the Minister for Finance sitting on my left here must, as a matter of urgency, provide enough money to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) through the Ministry of Education to hire enough teachers for this country. It is not good enough for children to go to school if they just go to school as if they are at holiday camps. Every school must be adequately staffed with enough competent teachers so that, when our children go to face exams at the end of the year, they are all coming from the same level of preparedness to sit uniform exams. What happens, as you know, is that urban schools are overstaffed. Rural schools have no teachers and this I believe my mwalimu, hon. Mutula here, will endeavour to correct the imbalance and my learned friend here will provide the money to achieve that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my second and last point is this: On the controversy about holiday tuition, I want to suggest this to the Minister, if the teachers of this country are patriotically offering to give free tuition to our children during holidays without asking for a cent from the parents, I see no difficulty with that. But if they are turning it into a business to levy unnecessary money from parents, guardians and children, then there is a problem. So, it should not be just a question of “let there be tuition or let there be no tuition”. Let us have some form of policy that clearly says what is doable and what is not doable and how it is done and how it is not done, so that where there are weak children who require extra tuition, we should not undermine the efforts if it is not going to cost the parents unnecessary taxation. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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