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    "id": 1339733,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Temporary Speaker",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
        "slug": "martha-wangari"
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    "content": " Hon. Members, Article 119 of the Constitution provides for the right of any person to petition Parliament to consider any matter within its authority, including petitioning the House to enact, amend or repeal any legislation. Further, Standing Order 225(2)(b) requires the Speaker to report to the House any petition other than those presented by a Member. In this regard, Hon. Members, I wish to report to the House that my Office has received a Petition from Mr. Roberts Njunukha Wekesa on behalf of teachers teaching in special learning institutions across the country. The Petitioners are calling for the termination of unlawful deductions by the Teachers Service Commission in favour of the Kenya Union of Special Needs Education Teachers (KUSNET). Hon. Members, the Petitioners aver that the Teachers Service Commission has been deducting union dues in the form of agency fees in favour of the Kenya Union of the Special Needs Education Teachers without their approval or consent. The Petitioners further aver that the Commission had unlawfully made them subscribe to the union through remittance of monthly union dues, which were later stopped by the court, and later realized that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) was deducting union fees in the form of agency fees without their consent. Hon. Members, the Petitioners claim that they approached the Commission requesting to be allowed to join other unions of their choice but were dismissed on the grounds that the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Teachers Service Commission, Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and Kenya Union of the Special Needs Education Teachers (KUSNET) placed all special needs teachers under KUSNET, which was a binding agreement which the teachers who fall under that category were to abide by. The Petitioner further claims that there has never been any participation to sensitise members on the activities of the union and other related matters, and their efforts to have their concerns addressed by the relevant bodies/agencies, specifically the TSC and KUSNET, have not borne any fruit. Hon. Members, the Petitioners therefore pray that the National Assembly, through the Public Petitions Committee, intervenes to compel the TSC to: 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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