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    "id": 1419054,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1419054/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
        "slug": "sifuna-edwin-watenya"
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    "content": "from a tear gas canister that a police officer fired during an exercise of his democratic right to picket and protest. I gave him my advice that that is the reason why Sen. Sifuna wears a sufuria on his head when he goes to maandamano, because that way the damage to the head is lesser. If you are wearing something like a sufuria on your head, if you are hit with a tear gas canister, you will not be hospitalized the way he was. I want to express my frustration with the medical practitioners in this House. They are telling me that they do not know what language to employ. The only appeal I can make to the doctors of this country is that we know the Government will never listen to you. The Government is never going to honor the CBA agreement it signed. The Government will not give you what you want. For the sake of Kenyans, wait this Government out. There is going to be a Government that will come - governments do not last forever - that will implement CBAs that it gets itself into; a government that will understand labor is a right, that you cannot hold people in servitude. Under Article 30 of the Constitution, you cannot hold somebody under forced labor. You need to pay them for their services. It is not common for me to advise somebody to abandon their right and cause. I know their rights, but they are speaking to a stone; somebody who has deliberately refused to understand their situation and basic terms such as “medic intern.” My appeal to the doctors is to wait this Government out. It will not be long. We are in 2024. I can assure you that when this side goes to the other side - and I hope you will be there to see it and that you will be sitting there when I address you from that other side - you will not have some of these challenges in this country. I thank you."
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