{"id":778555,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/778555/?format=json","text_counter":283,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Lochakapong","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13478,"legal_name":"Peter Lochakapong","slug":"peter-lochakapong"},"content":"The shortage of teachers is well known to everybody in this country. We have a shortage of about 104,000 teachers. We are facing a lot of challenges and inadequacies in staffing in our schools. With the current situation where teachers’ lives are in danger in some of the areas in this country which have a lot of insecurity like in the North Eastern, parts of Kerio Valley and in the North Rift, the best thing to do is to accept that this is a reality. Teachers have moved from those places, and pupils and students are not being taught. Therefore, it is important for us to look at a way out of this in the short run. We have what we are calling insecure areas."}