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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion of Adjournment. I want to support the Motion and from the onset, I want to declare my interest. I have been a teacher and I was among those people who negotiated in 1997. So, I feel betrayed by my own Government. That is the case with all the other teachers in this country. It is important that the Government owns up that it has not taken up that responsibility seriously. We should not say that it was the Government of 1997. Governments do not work in vacuums. Governments work in continuity and the Government that entered into that agreement with the teachers is still the same Government of Kenya. So, mine is just to emphasize the important role the teachers play in the society. They are the role models at the grassroots for the society, children and for everybody. We must respect them. We should give them the resources that are equivalent to the key role that they are playing in the society. Our children are suffering. The poor and vulnerable parents in the villages are suffering because they cannot take their children to private schools. All of us who are able in this country have taken our children to school and they are comfortable. But for the vulnerable and poor grassroot mothers – mothers who are household heads in the family - are suffering today. I am at pain standing here and seeing that our children are suffering and our teachers are on the streets asking for something that is their basic right. The Government entered into an agreement with them. It is very sad."
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