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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruteere",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 92,
        "legal_name": "Silas Muriuki Ruteere",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to second the Motion. First, I would like to thank hon. Kioni for bringing this Motion to this House, so that we can have a scheme of service for non-teaching staff in primary and secondary schools and also in special schools. I was a head teacher in a secondary school for 18 years and 12 years in a special school. Those days, we used to get grants and grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Education to pay for personal emoluments for all non-teaching and junior subordinate staff that were working in the schools. We used to get approvals of the kind of personnel that a school should have. The same employees used to be promoted after recommendations by the Board to the Ministry of Education. There was morale in the work that these people were doing. Today, non-teaching staff are at the mercy of the BoGs, especially the head teachers. If you are very loyal to the head teacher, you can be sure that your personal emolument, salary and allowances will be superior to those of others, who may not be attracting the eye or are not friendly to the head teacher. The Chairman of the BoG and the head teacher would only want to reward some and deny others what is rightfully theirs. It is common sense that when you leave an individual or individuals at the mercy of certain individuals and not the entire Board, which is not looked after by a superior organization, then these individuals would always suffer because they will be at the mercy of those who are determining their salaries and remunerations. The KUDHEA, which is supposed to be their trade union, is a union that when you join, then there will be ways of getting out of the school. The head teachers feel harassed and threatened by this trade union. So, very few of them would want to join KUDHEA because once they join, then the school administration will not look at them fairly. Therefore, it is timely that this House urges the Ministry of Education to come up with a scheme of service which should be handed over to all the head teachers and BoGs. This scheme should be honoured, so that there is smooth running of these institutions and movement in the promotion of these people. You should not join the service at Job Group A and retire at Job Group A. You should not join as a bursar with CPA at Job Group G and retire at Job Group G. There should be movement or progression depending on the years you have served, the work you have done and how effectively you have done. Therefore, I urge this House to pass this Motion, so that the schools are also stable. When the head teacher goes home, the entire school is left at the mercy of the gatekeeper, the watchman and the security guards. Those are the people who take care of the school at night. If there is any commotion and the students collude with these people, anything can happen to the school. These are the people who should be guaranteed"
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