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    "id": 1411242,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu West, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Naisula Lesuuda",
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    "content": "It is important to note that I started working on this Bill in the last Parliament. I revived it in the 13th Parliament because I knew the great important role our interns play in offering services to our country. I remember when I joined the national broadcaster, the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) after I had finished my Bachelor's degree. After I was recruited, I was required to pay Ksh1,000. I had just completed my education and was looking forward to gaining some skills and expertise in the field that I had studied. I was still paying my school fees, and I did not have anywhere else to get the money. I was expected to have money for transport to work, and again, the institution that had offered me an internship required me to pay them Ksh1,000. In the position that I was in, I managed to afford lunch, transport and even dressing. You are supposed to dress appropriately when you are going to work. But some of my colleagues could not afford that Ksh1,000. My experience as an intern formed the basis of my thinking that institutions and the Government need to pay interns when they employ them. They are not contract employees, but the manpower they provide is enormous. In some institutions, you will find that the interns put in so many hours compared to those employed or on contract. Yet, they are not given even a single cent to motivate them for their work."
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