16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for indulging me. Colleagues, you understand that we are living in very unique times. Therefore, when we get a little breather and some sense of sanity in the House, we want to move as fast as possible and transact as much as we can. This is one among a series of Motions that I want to move this afternoon, so that we can set the Calendar of the House and a few things that we want to do, like Committees. This is because there are colleagues who do not have the same. Mr. ...
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I thank my colleagues for their comments. We will be guided by the decision of this House. I plead that we pass this Motion, so that we can set the ball rolling. I know that there are many who may have wanted to speak, but I have explained to them the unique times that we are living in and the need to prosecute business when there is order as fast as we can. I thank you. I beg to move.
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me this chance.
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
We have long established a tradition that, when time allows and when colleagues bring Statements that are topical, and we feel the need to enrich or give a general comment on the Statement, we are permitted. Thank you for allowing me this chance. I believe to my colleagues as well.
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Munyu Mundigi only that I wish that the same can be expanded, as the TSC brings its report before the Committee, so that we get a countrywide report as opposed to Embu County alone.
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
I say this is because during our campaigns, and you know this for a fact and the rest of the colleagues who campaigned for us, every time we visited various far-flung parts of the country, teachers would rise in our meetings and demand an end to this delocalization policy in the form and structure in which it is currently being executed.
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
There are benefits, pros and cons to this delocalization policy that TSC can espouse on and when you listen to them it makes sense. The only bit that I do not agree with is where it becomes forceful or as is the case nowadays, as is increasingly becoming the case in TSC when it is used as a form of punishment.
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
You find a teacher from Embu or Meru being transferred to far-flung primary school somewhere in Lamu or Ugunja in Siaya, parts of the country where they have never been, have no relatives and nothing to do there. We all understand the salary of a teacher. There is nothing extra teachers teaching outside what would pass as their home, are being paid.
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16 Feb 2023 in Senate:
If you recall back in the day and observe, teachers were very much revered in the village. I say this because I know the kind of respect we used to accord them in the community we grew up. That afforded us the chance to be disciplined because it meant when you ran into a teacher, it was not only that you feared him in the classroom, but even deep down in the community.
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