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    "id": 971315,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/971315/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13174,
        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to also support this Statement from the Senator for Lamu County on the issue of intern teachers that were employed in Lamu County. The TSC was established as an independent institution under Article 237 of the Constitution 2010. This institution is expected to recruit, remunerate and manage teachers. In addition to this, under the Government policy on internship, they are supposed to recruit qualified youth and engage them in various schools. They are supposed to pay a stipend of Kshs10,000 and Kshs15,000 for primary and secondary school respectively. However, to date, for well over three months, these intern teachers have not been paid. This is an illegality. Mr. Speaker, Sir, one wonders how these teachers are faring on in those schools. Furthermore, I got to learn that these teachers are well over 300 against 40 schools. That means that those schools are already suffering because the teachers in those schools are very demotivated right now. The new Competency-based Curriculum (CBC) has been a challenge with regard to the skills that teachers are supposed to acquire while teaching. Right now, with issues of nonpayment, I think the problem is going to be escalated. It is high time that the TSC explained to Kenyans whether they want to waste our little children that are engaged in these various schools. These children are going to lose a lot because they are being taught by people who are not happy. For anyone to perform to maximum, such a person must be motivated---"
}