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"content": "of a stipend to interns is necessary as they contribute to the manpower of the organisation by offering their professional skills as apprentices."
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"content": "This proposed Bill comes after a crucial time in this country when our doctors and intern doctors are on strike. They are demanding payment commensurate to the work that they do. I do not want this conversation to hinder the debate or our mindset to be tied to the issues of intern doctors when we will be looking at this Bill. We should look at interns across the Public Service sector in the national and county governments."
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"content": "It is important to note that I started working on this Bill in the last Parliament. I revived it in the 13th Parliament because I knew the great important role our interns play in offering services to our country. I remember when I joined the national broadcaster, the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) after I had finished my Bachelor's degree. After I was recruited, I was required to pay Ksh1,000. I had just completed my education and was looking forward to gaining some skills and expertise in the field that I had studied. I was still paying my school fees, and I did not have anywhere else to get the money. I was expected to have money for transport to work, and again, the institution that had offered me an internship required me to pay them Ksh1,000. In the position that I was in, I managed to afford lunch, transport and even dressing. You are supposed to dress appropriately when you are going to work. But some of my colleagues could not afford that Ksh1,000. My experience as an intern formed the basis of my thinking that institutions and the Government need to pay interns when they employ them. They are not contract employees, but the manpower they provide is enormous. In some institutions, you will find that the interns put in so many hours compared to those employed or on contract. Yet, they are not given even a single cent to motivate them for their work."
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"content": "I remember when I was an intern, I decided to give my best. I wanted the institution not to get rid of me at the end of my internship, but to employ me because of the kind of work I had put in. I ensured that I worked so hard, just like those employed. When my internship ended, I was offered a job at KBC. So, we cannot ignore the role that interns play. One of the debates that has been coming up, and what I have been hearing from most of my colleagues when we debate, even about intern doctors, is that we want to compare professions. We have just finished a Motion here regarding the military and our uniformed servicemen and women, and we have discussed the critical role that they play in this country."
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"content": "If you again look at the doctors, you will see the critical role that they play. Same with the teachers. So, for me, it is always a debate, and that is what we should look at as a country. That is because others are also debating why Members of Parliament earn a certain amount of money or why judges are asking to be considered for pensions. The argument, however, should be that each profession should be looked into as the profession that it is and the service that the profession offers. You might be unable to quantify or say that a Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) does the same job as a doctor. No. Let us look at the doctor as a doctor and a teacher as a teacher and the role each profession performs in this country. That is because each profession in this country is key and plays a critical role in the socio-economic development of our country."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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"content": " Hon. Member for Samburu West, I hate to interrupt you. I know you are on a roll already, but you will pick it up from there the next time this business is put on the Order Paper."
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"content": "The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "ADJOURNMENT"
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"content": " Hon. Members, the time now being 1.00 p.m., this House stands adjourned until this afternoon at 2.30 p.m."
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"content": "The House rose at 1.00 p.m."
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