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    "id": 980952,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is a very serious issue. In fact, I have been attending meetings of the Committee on Education on this issue when they were meeting. What is at stake is security and the Government must come up with a serious marshal plan to security in northern Kenya. If it is difficult to run day schools there, let the Government have an affirmative action of building huge well-protected, well-funded and well-staffed boarding schools for children so that the teachers who go to teach there--- I do not share in the philosophy that we should leave people of northern Kenya to train their own teachers to teach their children. We are building a unitary state. Most of the teachers in northern Kenya, in fact, come from Central and Western Kenya. We encourage that TSC engages the national Government on matters of security. I am happy that Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud told us that tomorrow they have a meeting in Mandera on security and other issues relating to teachers. Tell them, Senator, that it is idle talk and irresponsible behavior to transfer teachers from your region because of issues of security. The cardinal responsibility of any government is to protect its citizens and their properties wherever they are and under whatever circumstances. Therefore, we should not make any excuses about northern Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, at the end of the day the children in Mandera, Wajir, Moyale and all those places are going to sit the same exams with children in"
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