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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose the Motion. This could have been a very good Motion but hiring untrained teachers to serve when we need quality education in this country is not appropriate. One of the goals of education in this country is to promote national unity. It is to foster unity among Kenyans. This can only be attained by ensuring that we live together as communities despite the difficulties that we go through. As a people, every region has its own challenges and difficulties. The Motion targets to address a challenge that is facing a specific part of this nation. For that issue to be tackled very well with a long-term solution, I ask the Government to intervene to ensure that there is law and order in that northern part of Kenya as well as in other parts of the country with similar challenges, including Mount Elgon, Marakwet and Baringo. The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) stands for quality education. The union seeks to ensure that we have quality teachers. Recruiting untrained teachers for those regions would be doing a disservice to children in those areas. Secondly, a few days ago, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government was in the northern part of the country, and in the insecure parts of North Rift region. At least some semblance of law and order has returned in those areas. I urge the leaders from those areas to also come in to ensure that we talk to our people because security begins with us. We should condemn the individuals attacking teachers. We should condemn the people who are trying to ridicule our teachers in class. It is incumbent upon all of us in this House and outside to ensure that we do not make laws that are only meant to address something for a particular time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will remember the founding father of this nation, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, took the reins of power at a very difficult time. There was the Shifta War and the Northern Frontier District Liberation Movement (NFDLM). There were many wars in the Northern Frontier areas. He did not give in. He ensured that the country remained one. If we go this direction where we are going to have what I will say is piecemeal kind policies where we urge a region to have a different policy from the national system, we will not go very far. In fact, I commend the Teachers Service Commission because they have, in the meantime, refused to withdraw teachers from those regions. Instead, they have asked the teachers to go to the urban centres within their regions and the locals go to the rural areas. It is the idea across the world. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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