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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Muthama",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Nduya Muthama",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I stand to support this Motion because of what I have been agitating for as the Senator for Machakos. I have stood by the teachers and will always stand with them. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, if there is one sector of society that has suffered in this country, it is the teachers. They started raising their issues during Moi’s Government. President Moi retired and the teachers are still suffering. When the NARC came into power, the expectation of every Kenyan was that since President Kibaki was an economist, he would deal with the problem of teachers. They were left hanging. Then the Jubilee Government came into power with the promise of creating jobs but it has made things worse for the teachers and this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are 285,000 teachers under the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). If we just take a small portion, just 2 per cent of the national Budget and pay the teachers, each of them will employ two people. That translates to close to 600,000 jobs but the Government is not ready to pay even a coin. We are taking it as a joke here, but Kenyans are getting poorer. Today, the children of the poor are at home, as I speak. But none of the children of the Members who sit in this House or the President, Deputy President and senior civil servants children are at home. At the end of the day, those who will be educated are the children of the most privileged. The poor will continue to languish in poverty. When a teacher is paid Ksh15,000, it is taxed. So, he or she cannot even afford to educate his or her children up to university level, yet that person is expected to put a lot of effort in his or her work, in the name of serving their country. Which country is this that you serve to promote the lives of those who kill your children directly and indirectly? You sit and watch your children being maimed by those who carry the power. Madam Temporary Speaker, if the Jubilee Government is not ready to obey the rule of law, which put them where they are, we will take the law into our hands and save this country."
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