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    "id": 902680,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I fully associate myself with the comments made by my colleagues. When Prof. Magoha, my former Vice Chancellor, got into the Ministry of Education, we had a lot of hope and we still have a lot of hope. He needs to consider this matter. We have policy-makers in this country who look at the theory but fail to look at the reaction of the parents and the young people who go through school. We are not encouraging students to get D+ or Ds, instead, we want this country to guarantee the students a future no matter what they get in the exams. Their high school mark should not be a verdict of how their life will be in future. It is interesting that the same Ministry, through the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), told us that there is a shortage of 87,381 teachers. The same Ministry told us that we must have 100 per cent transition yet they are the ones who are blocking people from joining the education field. We need to have a clear policy. The Chairperson of the Committee on Education should look at the quality of education. In Nairobi City County, we have students who are in Class Eight but cannot write their name because they are so many in a class. Instead of learning anything, they just hum at the back of the class when the other students are being taught. We need to look at this issue seriously because we are postponing unemployment of many young people by keeping them through school where the quality cannot be guaranteed. The matter should be looked at holistically. This issue is not only affecting the arid and semi-arid areas because we have some schools in the slums of Nairobi where no teacher agrees to go to. The 100 per cent transition rate should not be lip service. We should look at the quality, number of teachers and have some changes in the budgetary provisions so as to employ teachers as requested by the TSC."
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