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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Again, this is one Bill like I said which is very critical. The Minister for Labour has abused that privilege provided under Sections 43, 44, 45 and 46 of the existing Labour Act. The provisions under Section 44 are such that the Minister is capable of developing a Wages Council to cover specialized areas but this is what he has failed to do. Furthermore, like I said last time upon gazetting the wages, he is supposed to come and table that as provided for under Section 46 of the said Act. Apparently, this Minister has avoided that. Therefore, for the last four years, all that we have had gazetted is non- legality. I will urge this House as we move on, and I will demonstrate how these people are suffering, the House should remember the many people who have ugali with salt water because they cannot afford sukuma wiki. We should remember the many families who are crying and particularly that lady by the name of Wanjiku who has been taken to Gilgil Police Station because her children keep on crying of hunger and she is being charged in Naivasha courts. This is one time that the House must really look at the plight of these workers. I will be showing, like I said, the inadequacies in the administrative capability of the labour organs in this country. I will also be demonstrating further by tabling serious reports on what the human rights bodies say; on what the international community is talking about, on what the flower exporters themselves are saying about us and so forth."
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