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    "id": 728138,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "I specifically wanted to comment on the money for education and the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC). I know we allocated and now we are appropriating. This issue is very dear to me. I am the Member of Parliament for the TSC in Upper Hill in Kibra Constituency and the TSC is not getting the amount of money they need. I am pretty sure they are not pushing enough because the shortage of teachers in this country is about 80,000 and we are replacing and hiring at about just 5,000 per year. So, we are short-changing the children in basic education, primary and secondary school and some of the technical colleges. It needs to go on record that we need to look into it and see how we will, as a country, make sure we have a proper teaching force that is well remunerated and which has the right student-teacher ratio for quality education so that it will not be what people say in Kiswahili “ bora elimu ”. It must be what people really want “ elimubora ”. That must be a focus on funding our teaching core and making sure that the teacher core is professionalised, well-motivated and adequate in numbers so that the student-teacher ratios go down and we get value for the money we are getting. It will also reduce the strife in this sector and the industrial relations. I know the unions have already sounded a warning bell about that issue. So, it will call upon us as leadership."
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