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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the very Government that we expect to ensure that there is equity in distribution. It is releasing a report telling us that the problem is distribution. It is for this reason that I came up with this Motion, so that this House can pass a resolution and compel the Ministry, together with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to ensure that a census is done, so that we know how many teachers, are where and how they are distributed across the counties in the Republic. If we establish that there are these disparities that this report is alluding to, then it will be the responsibility of the TSC to ensure that there is re-distribution of teachers, so that there is equity in all the counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, besides this re-distribution, I am aware that the Government intends to recruit new teachers in 2018. As this recruitment is going on, emphasis should be given to counties where the ratio of pupil to teacher is still very high. Emphasis should be given to those counties and ensure that we ensure that we try to bridge the gap even as we await this census and audit to be done. We passed very good pieces of legislation and Motions in the last Senate that would help improve so many sectors, but most of them just went unimplemented. The Government cared less to implement them, yet at that time we had the Implementation Committee. I do not know what informed the scrapping of the Implementation Committee. This was a very crucial Committee and the leadership should look to see that we bring it back. If we pass this Motion, we will give the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the Ministry three months to implement it. We will need someone to follow up and ensure that this is done. This is where the Implementation Committee comes in. Therefore, I urge that we ensure that we return the Implementation Committee, so that we can make follow ups on the Motions that we pass."
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