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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute. I rise to support this Motion. We must agree that this is a temporary measure because it cannot and should never be thought of as a long-term solution. What we have here is a big dilemma of the right to life of our teachers versus the right to quality education of our children. We must weigh this very carefully. When it comes to life, even if we were to force these teachers to go back, some will choose not to. Already others have chosen to quit the teaching profession completely. This is because the threat is real. It is the second time this is happening. In the last Parliament we had a big demonstration of teachers who left for months and refused to go to northern Kenya. If we insist and do nothing, the children there will stay without any formal education. What is being proposed here could bridge the gap. Let us look at it that way. The real solution is looking at the issue of security in northern Kenya. In the last Parliament, we had many Motions for Adjournment. I can see in this Parliament they are getting many too because of the issue of insecurity and people not living in harmony. Profiling of people in the areas where there is insecurity is the problem. People see you stand out and then you are killed. We cannot say that these teachers must go back whether they like it or not. Indeed, there is a role to be played by the local people. We know there is a shortage of teachers in some areas in this country. Even the untrained teachers will not always be there. We must, therefore, put more effort in training more teachers in the areas with insecurity. I know this because I had an experience when I was the Director of Medical Services. We had a similar problem with nurses. We recruited nurses for these areas with insecurity and within one year they had come back to town. They had left those areas. This is a much bigger problem. The local people may have to contribute to this and work towards training more teachers so that there is harmony. Sometimes, one wonders how Al Shabaab can operate in these areas without the local people having the faintest idea of what is going on. I know it is possible, but I think they should do a lot more. 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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