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    "id": 1339765,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Thika Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to speak briefly on the two petitions. On the first one, on unlawful deductions by TSC to KUSNET, I will say that the era of exploitation and intimidation is over. There is no way you can force someone to give out money and yet, they do not want to belong to you. I do not want to be very fair to TSC. They need to return that money and be surcharged for deducting that money against the will of the teachers. The teachers were supposed to be given an opportunity to give their views. If I do not want to do something, why do you force associating with me? That is what the union is doing right now - forcing teachers to contribute money and intimidating them. If you do not comply, you are transferred far from your home. That should stop immediately. It is bad and extremely awkward. It is unacceptable. They cannot do that at all in this era: that you force somebody to join your union. If those teachers have not seen why they should be in that union, why force them? As for the lenders, we have seen many people suffer. For those people who know about shylocks, they do not give you that money for you to refund but to impose interest until you are not in a position to refund. Then they come after you immediately and take twice what they gave you. So, without laws to govern those lenders, there is a lacuna in that area. That is why they take advantage because they know no one can question them. They also know that when people go to a shylock, no one forces them to go there. People go there because of the problems they have. Therefore, because they know that, shylocks take advantage of such situations. When they give you money, they encourage you to borrow as much as you can and yet, they know very well that you will not be in a position to pay the interest earned. I also want to add that it is not just those shylocks; even our banks use the same formula. They give you a 10 per cent loan and then, at the end of the documentation, they insert an illegible clause that tells you that they can increase the interest as they wish. Our people have suffered because they took loans at very low interest rates, which have since been hiked. We should cushion them so that we protect our people. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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