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    "content": "because they stay in their locations and divisions. That is why we have a lot of problems in this country. I remember when I was in primary school in North Eastern Kenya, most teachers and headteachers came from all parts of Kenya. Today, with the unfortunate incidents of attacks by the Al Shaabab, you will not even see a single teacher from what we call upcountry or Kenya, for the Northern Frontier District (NFD) people. It is unfortunate that when you go to some schools you will find people who are illiterate teaching students, and we expect then to pass. That is a big problem that we have everywhere in this country and it is worse for those in the so-called marginalised areas. I am sure that the national Government can handle the issue of teachers, but the infrastructure – Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres, primary schools, buildings and others – can be handled by devolved governments, and everything will be okay. You will find some schools with no teacher from the TSC. With the onset of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) we built classrooms in every centre. In our areas the ratio that they use is the number of students and not classrooms, as Sen. (Dr.) Langat said. We are told that the ratio is one teacher to 40 students and yet a school might have only 100 students from Standard One to Standard Eight. So, we end up with two teachers. How will those two teachers help? In northern Kenya where we do not have enough teachers - and the teachers we used to get do not go there any more - students have a real problem. The other issue is that the boards of governors of secondary schools employ teachers. When vacancies are advertised, teachers from all over Kenya will apply and get employed, but after three months they get transferred. They will go to the TSC offices and seek transfers to their home counties. So the same school has to re-advertise the positions. There is need for people to know that there is a teacher in Wajir who comes from Meru or Kiambu and he or she will leave after three years. If they know that they will not be promoted, they will just go. Until we legislate and ensure that some action is taken, we shall continue going down the drain. I did my Certificate of Primary Education (CPE) in Garissa and I can remember my headteacher was called Mr. Mopili. I think he came from somewhere in western Kenya. Those days the headteachers of other schools such as Buna were from Meru. Today it is not easy to find anybody from other parts of Kenya including Wajir. Everybody now goes to his or her location. You will find a situation where a person is taught by woria from primary up to college if they happen to go to Garissa Teachers Training College. What will such a person know about other parts of Kenya? That is the problem we have. The situation could not be different from Vihiga. You could find that someone was taught by the locals from primary, secondary, college, up to university and they will not know what happens in other parts of this country. This is now affecting universities whereby if a university is started in Garissa, we want the vice chancellor to be a Somali. We cannot go far if we continue like that. We need to have legislation such that people are free to go to any place in the country. If you are from north eastern, you should have The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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