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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology on the consideration of nomination of the Chairperson and Members of the Teachers Service Commission laid on the Table of the House today, Wednesday, 9th January, 2013. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in moving this Motion, I want to still reiterate the importance of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in ensuring the management of the teachers, principals and ensuring the quality service, therefore, quality education for our nation. Earlier on, we had names presented to us. There were serious concerns that led to the rejection of the report by this honourable House. One of the issues was that there were allegations that some of the people or members who applied were under investigations a report that we did not have evidence on then. In the list that was presented to Parliament, there is a letter that was attached to it from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) dated 18th October 2012 and signed by Abdi M. Muhamud. In this list, it gives the position on the report on all the applicants. Therefore, the name that was forwarded to this House retains the name of one Mr. Kiragu Wamagochi. We, as Committee, looked at his papers and we recommended his appointment. On the other issue of the commissioners, we were supposed to get three commissioners and the serious concern that we had was that meritocracy had not been followed and we did not have information why the numbers one to four candidates were not considered. In the list that is now presented to us and I read it; Number one of the people who was interviewed was Mr. Cleophas Tirop who scored 81.4 per cent. The second person who had been proposed for nomination was one, Fredrick Hata Ochieng who scored 71.6 per cent. He was in position four and he is visually impaired and the third person proposed is Adan Sheikh Abdullahi who had scored 70.3 per cent and was position five from Garissa County. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, considering all these, we interviewed them and we recommended their appointment to these very important positions in Government. Therefore, I beg to move that this House adopts this Report. I call upon hon. P.C. Muturi Mwangi, Member of Parliament for Kiharu and also a Member of my Committee to second this Motion."
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