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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to take this opportunity also to commend the Minister and his Ministry in totality for having come up with a very good law that is going to govern education. We can see the autonomy that the TSC is going to have. We are very happy. We want the TSC to continue playing the complementary role. Although autonomous, they are going to play a complementary role and we want to wish them well. I want to revisit the issue of tuition in schools. I want to tell the Minister and the TSC that we would like to play complementary roles even down to the schools. We do not want a situation where we are going to look like the Minister for Education, and even the TSC, is going to micromanage headteachers and activities that go on in schools. We would like to allow the teachers and stakeholders within a given school to come up in their own way and see whether it is possible to have tuition. If they are in agreement, why should we interfere and say we want to ban it? We would like to have the rule of law in this country. We would not want a situation where we are going to look like we do not want that. We want everybody to be independent and to play a complementary role in whichever aspect. After all, teachers are the ones who have brought up all of us. I also want to bring up something on what my colleague, Mr. Wetangula indicated, that teachers should do tuition for free. I am a teacher. I am an educationist and I would like to mention that teachers never ask for money for tuition. What goes on in school is this, this money---"
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