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    "id": 472788,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I am saying that I want to follow from where hon. Kajwang’ left by commending the Leader of Majority Party for putting before the House the programme that we are to follow. However, there is a matter really that I think this House needs to pronounce itself on. We are all aware that the largest single employer of public servants is the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and it is a fact that any Kenyan of note, including yours truly the Speaker of this House, has passed through the hands of a teacher and yet as we speak now, the TSC is not properly constituted. There was an attempt I think sometimes back to bring the list of commissioners here for approval but that did not go through and it is beginning to look like there is confusion. The fact that the TSC, which is a constitutional commission, is not properly constituted is interfering with some duties of that commission particularly the welfare of the teachers. Hon. Speaker, would I be in order then to request the committee concerned and the leadership of this House to intervene with those responsible for the appointment of the commissioners of the TSC, including the chairman to expedite the process so that, that list of commissioners and the chairman can come to this House and be approved? We need to have this important constitutional commission in place? I thank you."
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