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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "the Ministry of Education and make a difference. He should enter that office knowing that it has had the highest turnover of Cabinet Secretaries in the Jubilee Government; and that he may also be walking through a revolving door. When Prof. Magoha came into office, the first thing he said was that he has no reverse gear, yet nobody had asked him whether he had any gears. That once he takes a trajectory, that is it. Yesterday, he said that he will crush anybody who stands in the way of the new curriculum. That is not how to run public affairs or behave in present day Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, 58 teachers have been interdicted in Kajiado. In Bungoma, they arrested all the heads of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) who had simply gone to schools where tuition was being carried out to ask the teachers whether they were ready for the tuition. They were asking as their leaders in KNUT. They arrested them, locked them up, bungled them in court and charged them with all manner of spurious offences. We had to rally to bond them. This is not how to run a Ministry. A county such as Kajiado suffers from a serious deficit of teachers, yet you dismember the few that are there from teaching. At the end of the year, the children of Kajiado will sit exams with children from State House Girls School, Mary Leakey School, Makini School and other schools in Nairobi. At the end of the day, they are to be graded equally and, eventually you will tell them that those who scored a grade of D+ will not go to colleges. This is not right. Therefore, I join Sen. Pareno in demanding that this is a matter of very urgent national importance. In addition to Kajiado, there are many parts of the country where teachers are being terrorized and harassed for simply raising questions. When you ask a question, you deserve an answer. You do not deserve being harassed, interdicted and locked up with charges on your head in your court. I urge the Committee on Education, Information, Communication and Technology, though I do not see Dr. Langat, the Chairman here, that this is a matter that should not wait for even two days. They should have the Cabinet Secretary for Education come before the Committee as early as tomorrow and demand of him that even as he answers questions, all the charges preferred against teachers for raising questions be dropped forthwith unconditionally and those who have been interdicted be lifted to go back to school and help the children of this country. Otherwise, if we go this route, we are creating a situation where we get people unhappy, angry, revolt and can cause discomfort in the country for no reason."
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