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    "content": "Eight registered and funded by the Government having two TSC teachers or even one. The rest are school dropouts, policemen and others who pretend to be teachers. This House must interrogate thoroughly the TSC on their policy of recruiting and staffing of teachers in marginal parts of this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are so many teachers on the streets of our towns. I am sure when you go to Kisumu, you are confronted regularly by tens of hundreds of children who have gone to schools and Teachers Training Colleges (TTCs) and registered with the TSC waiting and ready to be deployed to teach anywhere but nobody cares. Why do we tell school boards of management to recruit untrained teachers when we have teachers who have been trained but they are on the streets? These are the big questions that must be answered. There should also be rationalisation of staffing to create equity, so that if we have teachers that number hundreds of thousands in this country – sometimes we are told that there are 250,000, 280,000 or 300,000 – let us look at the demographic profile of the country. We need to know how many schools are in Northern Kenya and the optimal number of teachers that they require. It is understandable if a school has a shortage of one, two or three teachers but how do you have a school with Standard One up to Eight with only one TSC teacher and the same TSC is asking the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to prepare examinations and ask pupils to compete for spaces in schools such as Alliance High School, Mang’u High School, Lenana High School and so on? This is the biggest problem. It is annihilation of population because if you do not give children education, you will be destroying their future. That is why they find the only hope in life is banditry, cattle rustling and other criminal activities. We will ask ourselves questions whose answers we know. I urge Sen. (Dr.) Ali to see this to the end. The Committee must prepare a proper and through report answering to all the four questions that he has raised in his Motion and bring the report here. This House should be given proper time to ventilate for Kenyans to know that if we go the way we are going, then we will have no moral or legal capacity to continue crying against crime because we are breeding crime by our neglect of children. Let me finish by stating that our internal security organs must be talked to because security is everything. I heard Sen. (Dr.) Ali say that teachers from other areas should go back. That is not the way to go. Those children are our children and they must be taught by the good teachers who teach other children elsewhere. We should not give in to criminals by transferring teachers because we cannot handle security. Those who are given the opportunity to handle security and are unable to protect our children have no business being there. It is as simple as that. In the Roman days, there was a saying of falling on the sword. If you were given an opportunity to protect the king but you slept on the job and criminals came over the wall and harmed the king, you did not wait to be dealt with because you were expected to take a sword and kill yourself. In modern times, you do not kill yourself but resign from your job. Those who are unable must be told to do so. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion fully."
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