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    "speaker_name": "Samburu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Pauline Lenguris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for granting me this opportunity to support this Motion. May I inform the House that I am a Member of that Committee. We have sat and gone through all the Regulations and realised that the SRC had overstepped into the roles and responsibilities assigned to other independent bodies. As we know, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has the responsibility of employing, deploying, regulating and setting the remuneration of teachers in this country. However, if you look at what the Act stipulates, you will realise that the SRC has taken up a responsibility that is not theirs. This is the work of the Commission that was established. We have realised that the SRC has overstepped their mandate. We have also noted that they had stopped negotiations with the workers of this country, which is their real mandate. We have heard a lot of cries and concerns by workers who are being demoralised because the SRC has never given them a platform to air their grievances. The SRC has also frustrated the Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers of this country. As mentioned by one of the Members here, there is no law that allows a body to reduce a salary that has been earned by an individual for some time. The SRC has gone ahead to reduce the salaries of the ECD teachers, who are really suffering. We all have children and they are all first natured by ECD teachers. If the teachers are not motivated, they will not discharge their roles as expected. That is one of the roles that we need this Commission to look at. That decision was not right and it needs to be revisited as soon as possible. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have also realised that the SRC wants to reduce the pension of the workers of this country. People have worked for so many years and some of them are nearing retirement. Instead of giving such people a good retirement package, the SRC wants to reduce it. The Commission does not have the mandate of reducing the pension of the workers of this country. It is demoralising for the workers of this country to realise that they will not enjoy their retirement benefits. As a Member of the Committee and a leader who is 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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