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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang’",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Petition by the health workers who are Supply Chain Assistants. When medical officers get compensated for special allowances, those who have not done any medical courses but work in health departments in the counties should also be compensated. This is because they do the same work. Health workers work in shifts, for instance, three shifts in a day. These Supply Chain Management Assistants who support the health workers also work in shifts, in difficult hours of the night. When the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and the Committee on Health take up this matter they also need to call the Salaries and Remuneration Commission(SRC) so that when they come up with allowances for health workers, the Supply Chain Management Assistants are compensated like clinical officers, nurses, health record managers and morticians so that they get motivated. They would otherwise prefer to work from 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. in other departments instead of working at the Department of Health and they do not get remunerated like the others. On the report by the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, when we got independence in 1963, we expected all our communities to enjoy rights like everybody else. The Ogiek community, Sengwer and Cheranganys in Elgeyo Marakwet County have also suffered. The Torobeek Community say that the Ogieks were compensated. They went up to the East African Court of Justice and they got compensated. However, the Torobeek Community have not been compensated. These are people who used to and still settle in forests. For instance, in Mau and Londiani forests, but it looks like the Government has forgotten them. The colonialists evicted them. No Government from the first in 1963 to the current fifth has taken care of them. It is very important that the National Land Commission (NLC) has reported that there is an active investigation. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration needs to accord them so that they can be recognised as one of the sub-tribes in Kenya and give them Identification Cards (IDs). Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to identify them as the marginalised so that they can benefit when jobs are being given to the marginalised communities. Otherwise, they can be lumped amongst the bigger tribes yet they may not even have anybody who is employed from their community. I do not know if the Chairperson of the Justice and Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee identified that there is none who is employed."
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