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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity. I stand to support this Report. I want to say from the outset the persons who have been named in this particular Report are people who have very good qualifications. I think the Committee has done a good job in terms of the detailed analysis of the capabilities and the qualifications of each person that they have managed to give us in this Report. I wish to commend the Committee for considering a person with disability (PWD) for such a very important position. Mr. Mbarak Said Twahir is a person with disability. He is a person who started as a classroom teacher and I believe he is going to be very instrumental at TSC in ensuring that the interests of the many teachers with disabilities are taken care of. Many of our schools in our constituencies have teachers with disabilities working under very difficult conditions. I am very encouraged to think that Mr. Twahir, being in that particular high level position is going to be a very useful to teachers in his condition. As the Chair rightfully mentioned, most of the persons who are here are persons who started as classroom teachers. There is a challenge in TSC right now and people who are required are people who understand the real issues and difficulties that face teachers in the various parts of our country. Some of the nominees have been very clear in strategies and answers on how and what they are going to do about the problems that currently face the TSC. As you well know, the whole of last week we had teachers demonstrating right outside our gates of Parliament. I think some of the nominees have given very good and encouraging suggestions; they show how they will be able to end this particular problem. Coming from north eastern Kenya, I must say that we have a serious problem which can only be addressed by an efficiently working TSC as per the Constitution. This is because it requires them to, among other things, ensure that they do recruitment of qualified teachers and build the capacity of teachers who are in the area, so that they can give better services. The TSC is facing a serious challenge because there is lack of confidence in our public education. Many a times you will find that directors in the Ministry of Education have their children in private schools. I want to tell Chair, we should be finding out if any of these nominees, who have been brought here today have their children in public schools. If that is not the case, then it shows the lack of confidence that they have the ability to revamp our public institutions. For that reason, I want to say that TSC needs experts like the people in this particular place, so that we can address that. Issues of teacher shortages are becoming a serious problem. Some of the nominees here have made good suggestions. I want to say that some of the reasons why we encourage the approval of this Report is because I think the strategy that they are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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