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    "id": 834097,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834097/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this very important Motion whose time has come. We should ask ourselves a few pertinent questions. One of the most important questions is: Why do riots and burning of schools always happen just before exams? Is it because students panic? Are they following the footsteps of their role models who are the teachers? Whenever they are just about to do their exams that is when trade unionists, including those in the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), threaten to go on strike. Are our students also now emulating their role models who are the teachers? For a long time, teachers have held this country to ransom. Whenever we need them - mostly just before the exams - that is when they threaten to strike. Suppose other departments like the Kenya Army also emulate teachers that whenever we have an attack by the Al Shabaab, they also go on strike? Suppose doctors follow suit that whenever we have emergencies like road accidents and terrorist attacks, they go on strike? Probably, those students are actually following in the footsteps of their role models who are the teachers. Our children spend nine months with their teachers. They are only with their parents for three months in a year. For nine months, they take lessons from teachers, either in class or from their behaviour. This particular Motion should reflect on the teachers and their behaviour. In the Bible, in the book of Luke 17:2…"
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