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State should go beyond rhetoric to improve the quality of education

Peter Mokaya Tabichi has made the country and Africa proud. He is a lesson on many things: humility, courage and compassion. Above all, he is a good lesson to the teaching fraternity in Africa.

The soft-spoken teacher cites passion as his main motivation in executing his teaching duties and the happiness that comes with it makes him to keep doing more. And this is just one teacher out of the more than 300,000 that we have in Kenya; never mind that locally, he has never been recognised for anything, leave alone by his employer; Teachers Service Commission.

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