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    "id": 1069719,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1069719/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, when this process started, there were areas I was very happy with. I am on record as having supported those areas. On of the most important was the Ward Development Fund which was my original idea that I brought before the Senate. It was passed and went to the National Assembly and got stuck there. To the extent that it percolated into BBI, I was happy. I only became a little bit cagey when I saw three issues. One, a report detailing the cost of BBI once it is passed. There is a parliamentary report that denotes that Kenya will suffer an extra Kshs20 billion per annum once the BBI passes. This includes support to the double-decker that includes other institutions which are being created. Two, I thought that this process will amend some of the problematic areas I found, most importantly, the enhancement of presidential powers vis a vis the Judiciary. I am a victim of an over-bearing Executive. When I was a Vice-Chairman of the Student Organization of Nairobi University (SONU) at the University of Nairobi (UoN), I was suspended because of an Executive that was so over-bearing. So, when you provide in this Bill, a situation where the President has the unilateral power to appoint people in the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) and dismiss or penalize a judge, I have a problem with that. Madam Deputy Speaker, there is a Clause that proposes to delete representation of teachers in the SRC. I strongly believe that teachers are important in molding the children of this country and without them, we could not become lawyers, doctors or professors. So, when we kick them out of the SRC, we negate the entire teaching fraternity. I urge primary and secondary school teachers to look at how that Clause will affect their bargaining power particularly taking into account that we have ratified international treaties that support labour. In Article 2(6) of the Constitution, those treaties are now part of the Kenyan law."
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