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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "continue to recycle people and place them in important commissions such as the TSC. The teachers in this country are a suffering lot. They have suffered for ages. We need a TSC that is responsive to the plight of the teachers. If we have teachers who are perpetually grumbling and sulking, we cannot guarantee the future of our children. As we speak, the teachers of the north eastern region - Mandera, Garissa and Wajir counties – have been camping on the streets of Nairobi since the beginning of first term, because their security in those counties has never been guaranteed. The TSC, in its usual fashion, has refused to give them a hearing. We have had a TSC which is only known for issuing threats day in day out. The new TSC must be made to understand that it is at the service of teachers. It cannot be a case where the TSC views itself as some kind of saviour of teachers. The TSC is at the service of teachers, and must work for the benefit of the teachers. Hon. Speaker, it is only in Kenya where teachers have to go on strike for their remuneration to be reviewed. It has become a tradition or a ritual. In order for the teachers’ welfare to be looked into, they have to go on strike or threaten to go on strike. This issue should be addressed to finality by the new TSC. The TSC continues to employ double standards when it comes to promoting teachers. There are teachers who have gone through advanced educational training, but remain in the same grades. There is need for a proper system of evaluating teacher’s qualifications and rewarding them by way of promotion. There is the issue of teacher transfers in all the counties, where county education officers, or TSC officers, stationed in the counties use the issue of transfer as a way of soliciting favours from teachers. You may have a case of a teacher, who is basically underpaid, and who wants to be transferred to join his family, who may be living elsewhere. In order for such transfer to be effected, the poor teacher is required to part with some money. Some of them go as far as selling parcels of land or cows so as to bribe corrupt TSC officers in the counties. What I am saying is that, when we approve these names, we need to reform the TSC. That is the intention of the new Constitution. We can no longer have TSC membership with old mindset loading it over the teachers. We need sanity to prevail in the TSC. Education is a very important sector in this country. We cannot progress if we do not make the TSC as accountable as possible, and as envisaged by the new Constitution. With those very few remarks, I support the Motion."
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