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    "id": 98494,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have expressed myself in this House and outside this House about the question of shortage of teachers. Currently, we have a shortage of 56,000 teachers, that is, 33,000 primary school teachers and 23,000 secondary school teachers. I made a presentation both to the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology before the Budget was done. I also made a presentation to other committees and the Treasury. My presentation to the Treasury was that apart from the Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) under which we were to employ 12,500 teachers, we needed also to employ permanent and pensionable teachers. What I now see in the Budget, and I have said this before, is a provision of Kshs2 billion under the ESP. If this is implemented, it will only employ 15,000 teachers on contract. This is an issue I tackled with the heads and principals of schools in Mombasa last week. We agreed that in order to relieve this acute shortage of teachers, because it also has a direct bearing on the quality of education, we should be allowed to employ these teachers through the Board of Governors (BoGs) and the School Management Committees. I will expect Members of Parliament to be on board with me on this matter to convince our respective unions in our respective constituencies to agree that this is the only way we can tackle this problem, once and for all, as we look for other resources to employ teachers on permanent and pensionable terms."
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