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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Otichilo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. I wish to thank the Member for Ndaragwa, Mr. Kioni, for bringing this Motion to this House. This Motion is timely and we should not waste time to discuss so much about it. This is because it will make the management of our schools easy. Non-teaching staff in most of our schools, both primary and secondary, are at the mercy of the head teachers and as a result, they cannot perform their work properly. If they do not toe the line, they find themselves in many problems. Non-teaching staff in our schools play a very crucial role in both the management of the schools and their running. For example, in our secondary schools, the laboratory technicians play a very crucial role in ensuring that our students undertake their laboratory work very well. They organize laboratory lessons and so on. The bursar or accounts clerks are very crucial to the management of financial resources in our schools. The matrons and cooks are so important to the running of the schools. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, most schools go on strike because of bad food or poor management of the resources. So, we need these people to be well rewarded. We need these people to be independent, so that they can perform their work to the maximum level without fear. The need for a scheme of service for these non-teaching staff is very crucial. Currently, they are at the mercy of the Board of Governors (BoGs) or School Management Committees (SCMs). As my colleagues have said earlier, most of these decisions regarding these staff lie with the head teachers. The BoGs and SMCs play a very minimal role. Therefore, these people cannot perform their work well because of having total allegiance to one individual. Some members of the non-teaching staff who have tried to join unions have been sacked or punished by the head teachers or the SMCs. So, it is important that these people get a scheme of service, so that they can perform their work without fear. Secondly, these people should have a chance for advancement. As my colleagues said here earlier, once somebody is employed as a cook in whatever job group, he will remain in that job group until he retires. When they retire, they have no guarantee that they will get their pension. Eventually, these people come to us and ask us to force the SMCs to pay them their pension. So, it is important that these people have a clear scheme of service, so that they work without fear or favour. They must rest assured that when they retire, they will get their pension."
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