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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Abass",
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "not been performing very well. The classes are over-stretched, teachers are very few and there are no desks or books. Teachers are actually demoralized. You cannot have one class of 100 pupils and then you expect them to perform well. The sanitation, the environment and everything else has been affected so much, especially for the girl child. The learning conditions for girls have now become so unfriendly, even toilets are very few and, therefore, the environment is not friendly to the girls for learning. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, this money is just too little and it does not reach the schools in time. It might take the entire two terms before our schools receive their allocations. Therefore, whatever little money they receive, they are always paying debts and as a result, the school managements are frustrated. Besides being too little, it is not timely. So, we request the Government to release money in good time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one other thing is, as every hon. Member said, teachers are very few. There are so many teachers who are qualified but unemployed. We must employ teachers. In my constituency, I have over 700 teachers who qualified but are not employed and I have a shortage of 900 teachers. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is actually bringing in new conditions for employing teachers. The TSC is only an employing institution; we have the Commission for Higher Education that is supposed to guide on who should be employed. It is supposed to say who qualified and who did not qualify. The TSC is currently saying that it is recruiting teachers based on grades of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education."
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