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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. The TSC is an independent Commission on which I served as a commissioner before I came to Parliament. I know the work that will be done by these commissioners. I know they are capable because they have very good educational backgrounds. A nominee like Beatrice Adu has been a Provincial Director of Education (PDE) in various provinces in our country. So, she is well versed with educational matters. This list is representative of the regions that we have in the country. Hon. Speaker, being a Commissioner in the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is like reaching the apex of our teaching profession. That is the highest position. Those people, having gone through other employments, end up in correct positions. When they join TSC, they will be policy-makers in the Commission. They will also preside over discipline cases. That warrants that they should be people with an education background. True to the point, they have been teachers and they know about lesson plans and schemes of work. I would like to say that the performance of public schools, especially primary schools, has not been very good compared to the private schools that we have in this country. It is the work of those commissioners to make sure that, at least, that trend is changed; where we have public schools performing better than the private schools. That is because that is where the resources are directed by taxpayers. With regard to the distribution of teachers in this country, they are clustered in a very few regions. If we can distribute those teachers equally in the country, you will find 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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