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    "id": 772028,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Thank you, very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Motion. This is quite emotional and emotive. Part of the injustices that need to be addressed in this country is the issue of equitable distribution of teachers in our primary schools. Since 1988, I have been representing the people of West Pokot in one way or another, except for, let us say, a year when I was expelled from the party and another time in 2013 when I lost the Senate seat. I have been in leadership in that county. I suppose, this is not the way to go about to attain the equitable distribution of teachers; not by this Motion. I support it. I am not allowed to cast aspersions or to even impute improper motives on the Chair or even think about it but I am told it is the Chair who advised the Mover of this Motion to withdraw the Select Committee attached to this Motion on account of financial implications. How are we supposed to work? We have seen so many select committees. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to propose that at some point, you allow that we amend this Motion to take it back to where it belongs for action. For those of us who draft Motions, you can tell that this Motion is very windy and long in legalese – “and whereas, and therefore, further this and that” – but very short on the action part that it demands of this House. Look at what we are asking for after all these ‘whereas’, ‘therefore’ and all this. We are only asking that the TSC audits itself. My question is: After we get that audit, then what? What is the action that this Motion is supposed to take, so that we have equitable distribution of teachers? I was a Minister in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. I know that this audit that we are asking for is available. If you ask the TSC to do it, they can pull it from the drawers. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology can pull it from the drawers because there are returns every month about teachers and so on. That makes this Motion lame. I am glad I can see the Mover walking in and I am asking that we find an amendment that then allows us to take this matter back to an effective Motion that Members of this House, in a Select Committee, can audit the TSC and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. In fact, the injustice that the Senate Minority Leader was talking about--- I come from a place where most of the schools are in that category where the TSC will send only one teacher. Only the head teacher is employed by the TSC and the rest are employed by the parents. In Kasei Ward in my County, for example, one child in the recent Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) scored over 400 marks. The village did not even understand that and so, there was no celebration. The young man was just going about his business. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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