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    "content": "I say so because one of the gains of this Constitution is that the TSC is anchored in the Constitution under Article 237. The work of the TSC, amongst other things, is to advise the national Government on matters relating to the teaching profession. The TSC was a party to the suit that was filed both in the Supreme Court, High Court and all the courts where teachers have been to. Therefore, it is incorrect for His Excellency the President and his Deputy to state that they were not advised about this suit. This is something that they should have anticipated and factored in the Budget. If they did not, it means that TSC failed in that mandate. It is a contradiction under the new Constitution for TSC and teachers to appear as if they are adversaries in this process, because the Constitution contemplated that TSC ought to protest the same way the teachers are protesting. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also a contradiction for the Executive to appear as if they are giving advice and complaining about the wage bill. This sort of argument that is advanced in the public fora should have been advanced in the court case where the Government and TSC lost. The argument that there are no funds and that they cannot pay and yet it is an equivalent of Kshs1.3 billion a month is a tragedy. Sen. Billow and I wanted to know from the PS to the Treasury the carryover of the Kshs17 billion in the case of the laptops. Laptops will not vote in 2017; teachers will. We remind the national Government that these principals and headteachers are the returning officers in all the polling stations where Jubilee got votes. Therefore, mistreating our teachers is equivalent to mistreating our children. The President and his Deputy are famous for taking photographs with children. Why can they not contemplate that these children are suffering? They have been at home for three weeks and parents have paid their school fees but it is business as usual. Nobody is doing anything. What you hear is the Majority Leader of the National Assembly saying that they will cut Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) and the Speaker saying that there is no reason to recall the House. What is that person in the village thinking, that the leaders do not even seem to know where this country is going? The Majority Leader seems to have a different view from his boss. The Deputy President seems to have a different view from the Chairman of the Committee of Education, Research and Technology, Kabando wa Kabando. Where is this country going? There have been many violations of the Constitution."
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