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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. We do agree with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale that this is a matter of critical national importance. We want our children back in schools. We want our teachers to be paid so that those children can go back to school. Madam Temporary Speaker, I recently attended an international meeting where education was one of the topics being addressed by experts from across the world. They said that in a school system, there are very many pillars. The most critical pillar is the teachers because even if you have everything else right; the buildings, the students and even parents escorting children to and back from school, and then you do not have teachers, there will be no school. So, teachers are the most critical pillar in the education system and we cannot hope to develop educational excellence in this country with overworked, underpaid and frustrated teachers. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is critical that the issue of teachers be addressed urgently and in a very comprehensive manner. We are tired of seeing teachers coming out in the streets year in, year out. I think time has come for us to engage them on a very comprehensive basis. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I was telling my learned friend, Sen. Orengo, when we got Independence in 1963, almost every worker was out in the streets The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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