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    "content": "Under Article 29 of the Constitution, it is very clear that every person has a right to security, including that teacher who is teaching in Wajir and that learner in Wajir. It is painful. I know once you register with the TSC you are told you can work anywhere. But you go there to provide services yet you are murdered. The TSC has a delocalisation policy which I support. In such areas where teachers are not being provided with security, they should do away with the delocalisation policy so that people from that particular community are given priority to teach in that area. It is not the first time we are losing teachers. I come from a constituency where the majority of the professionals are teachers. We have been exporting teachers to other counties. I come here to mourn as I speak on this matter. The TSC should move with speed. For a situation where we have an extraordinary case, you need some extraordinary measures to solve that situation. It might not be forever. The proposal by Hon. Sossion of saying we get untrained teachers has been benchmarked elsewhere and it has worked. Some of us are where we are today because we were taught by the untrained teachers. If such an opportunity is there, they should be able to move with speed so that those particular children, wherever they are, are not disadvantaged. The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education or Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams they are going to do are the same countrywide. They are not going to set specific exams for a particular area because they had shortage of teachers. That is why the Government must move with speed to put in some measures that can address the issue in the short-term as we look for the long-term solution. We know very well that the long-term solution is security. The security systems in this country, particularly when it comes to those regions… It is the highest time the local leadership came together. The last time the local leadership came together to resolve this issue, one of the leaders said he was going to name and shame those Al Shabaab . Up to now, that leader has never named them. We want to call upon that leader to tell Kenyans who these Al Shabaab are who kill our teachers who have gone there to work. This is the message to the TSC: for those teachers who have moved from those regions, the TSC must move with speed to deploy them. Already, if it is an issue of exposure to risk, they have been subjected to that. We do not want them to come out of that region and they go hang around at the TSC headquarters. I am sure the CS is listening to me. We have been supporting a lot of issues when it comes to education. It is a fundamental right for every Kenyan to access quality education. I want to thank the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research because I know he is up to the task. He should call the TSC quickly and see whether they are going to implement this. The Estimates will be coming to this House very soon. When I looked at the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), I realised there is no linkage at all… The Jubilee Government has been talking of the four agenda but there is no connection in the BPS. That means we have been lying to Kenyans. When you talk of manufacturing or food security, in the BPS there was no…"
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