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    "id": 817874,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Motion. I rise to support. It is interesting that we are now debating this Motion about the status of education in Northern Kenya yet we are also processing a Petition. A Joint Committee on Education and the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations of the Senate are also tasked to handle a Petition that was brought before this House and referred to the said Committees by this House. There is this Motion and that Petition that is being handled by the Joint Committee. At some point, we will have to check how the two can be merged so that whatever outcome should be reflecting what both the Petition and Motion are talking about. The Petition and the Motion are talking about the same thing. Madam Temporary Speaker, I had a chance to hear from some of these complainants. I also had a chance to read that Petition which has just the same things as what this Motion is talking about. The complaints that we now have is that we do not just have a security situation in Northern Kenya. It is not insecurity alone. I am now wondering who to believe. If you hear the submissions of some of the Members of the Senate, especially from that region, they say the allegations that are being brought forth by the teachers who have caused the transfers that have been done, are not true. However, I personally had a chance to talk one on one with some of these petitioners. In fact, they broke down before the Committee because of what they were narrating. It is in some of these schools – not all of them – because we cannot say that every county in north eastern has the same problem or that the problems are the same in every institution. In some of the named institutions, we were told that there was stoning of teachers. That is a report and Petition we have. In some of the institutions, we were told that a teacher was assaulted and slapped before the wife because they both happened to be teaching in the same school. There is a report that there is discrimination and someone are not allowed to take sick leave. Teachers are also not allowed to take maternity leave. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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