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    "content": "secondary schools and universities. It is not a good indicator for our country. So, this one needs to be paid. Madam Temporary Speaker, you remember, recently, we sent staff to new employment units called counties. Every county ended up going on an employment spree and so many employees are there. Do you know the amount of money that they are being paid? A driver in the county government is earning not less than Kshs40,000 and this fellow has not gone to school. Some of them reached Class Seven. The same Mrs. Serem who is pretending to know everything has also not gone to evaluate them. Do you know how much the gardeners of governors earn? If I mention it here you will be shocked, because it is almost close to what you are earning yourself. Teachers are justified and they need to be paid. We are building the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) all the way from Mombasa to Malaba. However, do you also know that we have trucks? How many years will it take to phase them out and for people to start using the railway and the train which has not yet been bought? It will take time. For that reason, we can go slow as we continue building the SGR and get some of the money quickly to pay the teachers. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are one million acres being ploughed and purportedly irrigated in Tana River County for Kenyans who are hungry in north eastern counties, West Pokot and Turkana. How will you carry all that food from Kilifi and Tana River counties all the way to the affected counties? We could stop some of those interesting projects, get this money and pay teachers. The little money that is left can be given to counties to set up their own irrigation schemes, small as they are, to stop hunger rather than doing things which do not make sense. Where are the laptops that will cost the taxpayer Kshs17 billion, equivalent to what teachers want? We can simply use this money to pay teaches what they are asking for and no child will complain if we just tell them: “Your teachers were paid for the sake of your training by a competent teacher.” This is just what we really need today. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) employees are a collection of most of the teachers. How can a teacher move to TSC and pay him or herself while the colleagues who are labouring in the classroom are underpaid? These are some of the things which do not add up. Does the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology exist? Do they also see these anomalies? Why is the Cabinet Secretary (CS), the Principal Secretary (PS) and company not bringing up these things so that we do not have a distorted workforce in the Ministry? This brings a lot of issues to the fore. Madam Temporary Speaker, remember we have so many commissions today which were created by the Constitution. Commissioners are earning over Kshs600,000 and others Kshs1 million and most of them are retirees. The total sum of what we are paying them is over Kshs100 billion per year, excluding TSC which is given the biggest chunk of the budget amounting to Kshs140 billion. This is small money that can be paid today if there is goodwill. I support."
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