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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to comment on the Petition on teachers. This is quite a serious matter. Even as we talk about making sure that our children go to school and are taught, we must realise that the issue of security is more important than anything else. If you are a teacher, posted there and you die, then at the end of the day, it is a choice between death and working. We all agree as Members that if any of us is given a choice between death and work, obviously we will choose life. I recommend the idea of having a joint session of the two committees, namely, the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security and the Departmental Committee on Education and Research. This might somehow be the way out because this matter requires a multidimensional approach. I am sure Members are aware that about three weeks ago, some teachers were camping at the TSC. Some of us used to get more than 100 text messages after every hour requesting Members to intervene. They are suffering and it looks like their employer is not really considering their plight. So, I appeal that even as the matter is being discussed by the Hon. Members, we also must look at the issue of teachers whose lives have been threatened. It is a matter of choosing between life and death. On the Petition on human-wildlife conflict, we all know that this is a House of records. I was lucky to serve in the 11th Parliament with Hon. Mwadime. I am sure the same Petition was brought to this House by the same Hon. Member. As a House, we need to discuss the issue of implementing some of the recommendations that we make. I am sure if the recommendations had been implemented, Hon. Mwadime would not be raising this Petition today. Farmers are suffering. I urge the Chair of the Committee on Implementation, my friend Hon. ole Kenta, to start working and push hard so that the recommendations of the House are implemented. With those remarks, I support the Petition."
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