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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, now that the Ministry has restored sanity in the examination process, it should go back to the history and archives to find out who messed up the system in the KNEC. Even if they are retired, a thief is never tired. They may have even infiltrated universities. Since it is only the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Secretary that changed and not the staff, Dr. Matiang’i should be keen. It is time for him and his team to take a fresh oath. All the people working in the Ministry of Education need to be vetted afresh. As Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. mentioned, Kirinyaga County was ranked top with a mean score of 274, followed by Elgeyo-Marakwet County with 271. First of all, the mean score of 274 is low. What was the mean score of the top county in 2015, 2014 and 2013? We need to compare the mean scores to find out why the results have gone down. Most of the counties that performed well have more private schools than public schools. Kirinyaga County may be having more registered Class VIII academy schools than public schools. I know in Elgeyo-Marakwet County is the same because they are my neighbours. We need to ask ourselves why parents opted to take their children to academies. Is it that cheap? Kenya does not have regulations in education and that is what they love most. Why do we have shortage of teachers? Today, we are told there is shortage of about 100,000 in the country. That is why Uasin Gishu County and others have improved. They are encouraging private schools to come up. In West Pokot County, for example, we do not have more than three academies. This means that some counties will not perform well because of shortage of teachers. We have 2,400 primary school teachers in my county. We have a shortage of 1,940 teachers. A staggering figure of over 40 per cent of teachers is needed in the public sector. So, if the Minister for Education is introducing these stringent measures, let him get us the teachers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Khaniri has introduced a Motion which will be discussed asking the Ministry of Education to name every station where the current teachers are located. Which stations are they? Which schools are they? Which counties are they? You will be surprised that Nairobi County or the ones that are leading have more teachers than what they need. Some schools have more teachers than others. Now that we have counties, county governors should be encouraged to build houses for teachers so that teachers are fully motivated. I do not know what they do with NGCDF money nowadays. It should be used to build houses and offices for teachers in both primary and secondary schools. This is the only way we can have enough teachers in the rural areas. Many teachers prefer to teach in Nairobi and other urban centres where facilities are good. For example, The Alliance High School has more than 80 teachers with a population of 1,500 students while Chewoyoit, which is in my county and having the same number of students, has only 40 teachers. Therefore, if we want the performance of other schools to improve, we should deploy more teachers there."
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