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    "id": 980918,
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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. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to discuss this important issue concerning our region. I also wish to thank Sen. Iman for bringing this Statement. In 2005, during the Darfur crisis in North Sudan, I was a trainer there. I was training on accounting and donor reporting. At that time once I finished training, I left that place. Six months down the line about ten people that I trained left that organisation and went to the United Nations (UN). One of them sent me an email saying that in their mother tongue there is a saying that if somebody gives you knowledge, they have given you life. From that point of view, the action of TSC is denying life to vulnerable children of that area and bringing marginalisation to those three counties through the backdoor. Last year, about 3,000 candidates got Grade E in that region because in 2015 3,000 teachers were transferred. In 2018, almost 2,800 teachers were transferred. In January 2020, another 3,000 teachers were transferred. Every time they are transferred, non-local teachers are recruited. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you are aware, there was a solution to that problem. The people from the Northern Kenya cannot handle the issue of Al-Shabaab . Terrorism is a global phenomenon. We cannot be punished every other year because a teacher was killed by these rogue group that has no religion. They have no religion at all; they are pagans, for lack of a better word. Part of the reason teachers are targeted all the time is because Al-Shabaab likes media. They know that every time there is an incident involving teachers, there will be a lot of publicity, and that is what they are after. Therefore, the TSC is making the non- local teachers more vulnerable to the Al-Shabaab phenomenon through the action they take every other time."
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