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    "content": "The people from Nairobi County, whose children scored over 400 marks, seemed to know it was going to be 400 marks and so they had prepared the children for celebrations to be carried shoulder high, with the script written. I guess the children know what they want to say. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is so unfair to us to say the same exam which is set here in Nairobi County is sat by that child. Even that child in Kasei should have been the one who should have met the President and the Deputy President to be given real understanding of who he is. This is because this child is sitting there with no teacher at all and scoring 400 marks. He is the one who should have been brought and put in front of everybody to know that with just a little more help and just three more TSC teachers in those schools, you will be amazed at how brilliant those children are and how their performance will be enhanced. I am very proud of that child who scored over 400 marks under those conditions. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you go to any county right now, you will find some teachers just sitting somewhere. In fact, what the Senate Minority Leader was driving at is that there are schools where teachers have nothing to do. That means that they are many in one place. So, it is about equitable distribution and that is what this Motion seeks. How difficult is it for the TSC and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to push for equal distribution? It is very difficult for the officers on the ground to do that. We must have this House pushing for that to happen. Officers on the ground are captives who cannot make a decision. They cannot do anything because there are waheshimiwas or chiefs’ wives. So, we must have legislation so that this happens. This Motion was amended to include a select committee. If this is the case, it will not take long before the results are seen. However, there is need to have legislation that will make it possible to take action. Otherwise, we will say all things but nothing will happen. In this country we know each other very well. We know our weaknesses and strengths. One of our weaknesses is creating equity. You cannot move a teacher from one school to another because of so and so. The Cabinet Secretary for Education, Dr. Mating’i, has been praised for many things. He has dealt with cheating in examinations and he said he will focus on whatever is happening in universities. However, there is one thing he cannot afford to do. When he goes to the schools, I have never heard him say that some teachers will be moved from this school to that school. I would like to see him do that but I know it is very difficult. So, this House must come to the rescue of officers by having legislation so that somebody knows that what they do is against the law. We must create that kind of law and that is what our business is. When the right time comes – I hope that some drafting of the amendment is going on – we will pass the amendments and bring the law into action. This Senate calls upon the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in conjunction with the TSC to audit the distribution of teachers. We need to move and the select committee should help us find the needs and how we can solve the problem. We need to find a way of moving forward so that it is not business as usual for TSC officers serving at the grassroot level. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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