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    "id": 1439774,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kacheliba, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Titus Lotee",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I thank my colleague and Member for Samburu West for coming up with this very progressive Bill. The way interns are recruited and managed currently in this country requires such a progressive Bill. Before I even talk about the internship proposal in the Bill, I wish to join my colleagues in condemning the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for the heinous act that it has done to the intern teachers. This demonstrates to the public that interns are not protected by any law. They are under-looked by everybody in the society. When 742 intern teachers went to the streets to picket as provided for by the Constitution that covers every Kenyan - including them - they were fired. In the teaching fraternity, the intern teachers are not the only ones who have ever demonstrated. I know that teachers on permanent and pensionable terms demonstrate several times to express their reservations to their employer. However, they have never been sacked unilaterally like the intern teachers. Therefore, this law will definitely protect internship in future. In that stroke, I ask TSC to reconsider hiring back those intern teachers because they are protected by our Constitution. Article 37 of the Constitution allows every Kenyan to picket. Two, the way the interns are currently recruited is based on who you know. There is the aspect of ‘ mambo ya kujuana’ . If I am a managing director, chief executive or a director somewhere, I would have my relatives come in as interns with the intention to employ them after some time. That is what is happening currently. If you go to many offices, you will find that the directors and all the interns under them are relatives or close family friends. That is one way of ensuring that the people who do not have connections in this country never get employment opportunities."
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