{"id":805567,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/805567/?format=json","text_counter":381,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Ochieng","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13261,"legal_name":"Pamela Awuor Ochieng","slug":"pamela-awuor-ochieng"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. The case of the TSC and the issue of their administrative work to move around the counties and even check on the quality and the implementation of what the teachers are doing on the ground is something very important to this country. Ideally, I would wish that whatever budget they were allocated remains the way it is. In recent years, we have seen that our results are not very good, especially in the rural counties. Much of it is attributed to the fact that apart from the number of teachers that we have in schools that my colleagues have talked about, the supervisors are not able to move. The supervisors are not able to move in the villages to see what the teachers are doing on the ground. I wish that the reduction was not done so that we give the TSC the total amount that we requested for as the Departmental Committee on Education and Research. That amount was actually way less than what the TSC requires to carry out its mandate to deliver quality learning to our children all over the country. I oppose the amendment."}