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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "In fact, I think you are right, something is not right. Everything is very wrong and the more reason why they should take more time to understand what is actually wrong. It is a matter of common knowledge that teachers are supposed to be on strike. So, even to request that the Committee brings a statement today or tomorrow, we will just be merely scratching the surface. I think there is much more than meets the eye. The Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, I believe, is having meetings with Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), the Ministry concerned as well as the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). But I appreciate that the TSC is in limbo, as you rightly pointed out. We, as a House, have communicated that very fact. Indeed, as you may very well find from the Act under which public appointments are being made, Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act No. 33 of 2011 requires that if the House rejects a name of a nominee, the nominating authority has to submit fresh names, not going to replace and bring the same rejected names. The House has already expressed itself on those particular nominees, and the House will not allow a situation whereby they have rejected a name or names yet the nominees are brought back. We are not going to operate like those other fellows, I am sure you are aware; those out there in the other level of Government. Here at the National Government level and the National Assembly, we will require the nominating authorities to ensure that if the House rejects a name, that name ceases to appear and must not appear. We have communicated that the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology may actually not even give us any reports. We want the nominating authority to submit fresh names and they will be given to the Committee. Hon. Saney, proceed."
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