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    "id": 902683,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute on this matter. I also wish to welcome the students from Our Lady of Consolata, Murang‟a County. The 100 per cent transition is not for pastoralists. The Government posts teachers to North Eastern, which shares a border with Somalia, hence susceptible to terrorist attacks. When the terrorists attack the area, the Government that is supposed to protect its own people punishes them by taking away all the non-local teachers. This House should understand that the admission of the 3,200 students in the Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) was supposed to help the North Eastern region get teachers so as to avert the crisis that occurred as a result of the terror attack that happened in May, 2018. Is it the fault of the child from North Eastern that there was a terror attack? It is not their fault because terrorism is a global phenomenon. Other than teachers, there are the medical staff and people who work in the construction industry and none of them is affected. If North Eastern gets the 3,265 teachers, the crisis will be sorted for some time as those students who scored C+ and above join colleges to train as teachers. At the moment, we are talking of classrooms with no teachers. It will be good for those students to get a teacher who can sit in class and give them the basics; that is what they need. At the moment, they do not have that. Having students who have been in college for a whole semester being discontinued is poor decision and a waste of Government resources. I also trust that Prof. Magoha will make the right decision because I know that he is an intelligent man. I also know that the decision to discontinue the students was made by the TSC because it is the one that is against this policy."
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