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    "id": 902711,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 611,
        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "I would like the House to be aware that we visited Wajir County with Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri, the Chairperson of the Committee and other Senators from Wajir. In Wajir Mixed School which is a day school, we found that there was a shortage of 27 teachers. They have over 70 students in one class and six streams. In Wajir Girl‟s Secondary School, which is a national school, they have a shortage of 17 teachers. Only one girl in that school got a C+. So, where do we expect to get C+ to take to teachers‟ colleges from this region if they have this huge shortage? Therefore, I urge this House to take disparities seriously. We should look at the policies that the Ministry is bringing in terms of affirmative action. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we speak today, the issues of promotion of teachers to headship whether in primary or secondary schools has been designed by the TSC so that it marginalizes teachers from the marginalized regions more. Therefore, we need to look at these policies that are brought by an individual CS. Whenever there is a change of CS, they change the policies to suit how they want to run these Ministries. Therefore, we need to look at this and be serious in terms of policies that are made on the road shows to affect some of our communities."
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