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    "content": "The cost implication of teachers and children staying out of school is far reaching. If the President of the Republic of Kenya does not have an advisor on that, let me tell him what could happen. There will be drug abuse among our young children and illicit pregnancies. In other areas, funny religious doctrines will be inculcated in these children who are helpless. So, the President must reassess who supports him on these areas. The threats by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) that they will arrest and sack teachers are things of the past century. First, I come from a family of teachers, almost seven of them, who made me who I am. Madam Temporary Speaker, to be in the Senate, I am a beneficiary of teachers of Nyamira County whom I shared with the issues affecting education. Four years ago, I did a survey on the salaries of teachers. When I looked at the pay slips of those teachers, some had minus 600 or 700. These teachers have families, and the same family has a child in the university or polytechnic and is even struggling to assist the children where he or she works as a head teacher to make them pass their exams. Madam Temporary Speaker, Kshs15 billion was allocated to the laptop project which never came to be. That money is lying somewhere. Let it be reallocated. It can solve a problem of the teachers’ pay for about six or seven months. This is very important. Time has come for us as leaders of this country to consult effectively rather than giving directives and threats from the rooftops. It is important that those who were arguing about issues of productivity, for instance, the TSC; they should know that you cannot tell a teacher who earns peanuts to be productive; a teacher who does not have breakfast, cannot afford lunch or a book costing Ksh1200 to enable him or her to be productive. All those issues were fallacies. It is important that all leaders of this country look for a way of raising funds to pay teachers. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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