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    "id": 895702,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First of all, as the Vice Chair of the Committee where one of the Statements has been committed, we will act on it accordingly. First of all, I thank all the Senators who brought Statements on very pertinent issues. I will focus on just two of them touching on education. There is the issue of transfers and equitable distribution of teachers. I would just like to ride on that statement and ask that when the Committee considers it, they should focus on one very important question that is not being answered. Transfers is one thing, but when the TSC boss herself says that because of the 100 per cent transition rate promise, there is a shortage of 87,381 teachers, and are staring at a crisis in the education sector. Madam Temporary Speaker, children going to school does not mean that they are getting educated. In many of our schools, I have seen children who have come all the way from Grade One to Grade Eight, yet they cannot read. This is because there are a few teachers in schools, they are many students or pupils in a class and, therefore, they keep humming at the back of the class room. At the end of it all, they are not educated. We are, therefore, not guaranteeing these children a future. We are instead doing more harm other than helping them. Madam Temporary Speaker, have we done a budget before giving the promise of 100 per cent transition? Have we done an analysis of what the needs in those schools are? When the Statement by Sen. Mwaruma is being answered, we must be told what those specific needs are. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have a difficult time visiting schools in Nairobi because there is no education going on there. We have schools that have been run down in this city. There are schools in the Capital City, where small children are forced to balance in pit latrines which do not even have water. The children in the village may know how to use the pit latrines, but those in the city do not. The place where their food is being cooked is terrible. I have visited the schools and it is painful. I found out that food is the main challenge in most of the schools that I visited, which is painful. The School Feeding Programme needs to be brought back. Urban poverty is different from rural poverty. In Nairobi, when there is no food, there is no food. In the village, one can get gorogoro moja of mahindi and some greens, which can sustain them. The other day, I was in Kinyanjui Road Primary School---"
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