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    "id": 1162244,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1162244/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to inform Sen. Sakaja that in that Statement, there is the aspect of labour. As at now, when you go to Nandi Hills Constituency, most of the young people are now standing on the road sides because there is an introduction of tea plucking machines which are very heavy. They capture chameleons and all the dirt. It is not the same as plucking using the hands. Therefore, the quality of our tea will also go down. My worry when tea plucking machines are introduced in parts of Nandi Hills Constituency and Nandi County, in the next one, two, three or five years, young people will not be engaged. Most of them will be idlers and we will see cases of drug abuse, insecurity among many others. I agree with Sen. Sakaja that there must be a renegotiation of CBA. The famous Secretary-General (SG) Francis Atwoli signed the CBA to sell out our workers. Therefore, he must be called out. He has abandoned the workers and joined politics of the day. They are downtrodden. I know that COTU is one person. Therefore, it must take its rightful position like Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (COSATU) in South Africa, which takes labour issues seriously. All workers who are watching in Nandi and across the country must know that it is COTU who negotiated their CBA and sold their birthright that would have ensured that they get fair labour practices in our tea companies. Finally, I talked to some of the tea companies and they are asking me why I am complaining, yet it is COTU who negotiated some of these CBAs to introduce tea plucking machines in Nandi, Kericho, Bomet and many other counties."
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