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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Sometimes, when we look at Statements, we may invite the Cabinet Secretary for Education and ask him why the KNEC is dilly-dallying when it comes to paying teachers who have worked. In order to have finality on this issue, the most logical way is to peg this with the amount of money that is paid by the candidates for them to do those examinations. However, candidates do not sit examinations for free. In other jurisdictions, if you lease an apartment, you pay a deposit, which is put in an escrow account. You only get the money back the day you will be leaving. We need to be a bit creative and say that part of the money paid by candidates in order to take examinations should be earmarked or budgeted, so that it is used to pay teachers. It should be put in a special account and further devolved. You will be surprised. Sometimes those are primary school teachers. We are already paying them peanuts. We pay them peanuts and do not give a hoot in hell about their welfare, yet that little amount of money where they put their time and use their brains to make ends meet in order to sponsor one of their relatives to go to school is delayed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like us to put ourselves in the shoes of those teachers. When we sit in this House and our sitting allowance is delayed, all of us will complain and we will not do anything. I request the Senator who requested for this Statement to consider bringing a Motion, so that we have that issue dealt with finality. That Motion should not only be passed here; we should look for a brother or sister in the “Lower House,” so that we have these Motions concurrently and this House pronounces itself on issues of remuneration. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support and thank the Senator for bringing this matter to the attention of the Senate."
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