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    "id": 1458006,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1458006/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdul Haro",
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    "content": "I would add that the Council of Governors, the Public Service Commission, Salaries and Remuneration Commission and the National Treasury should move with speed to confirm the 8,500 UHC staff as permanent and pensionable. They should make sure that all the benefits they were supposed to be enjoying for the last four years and which different committees and reports have indicated that they should be granted, are granted. Having said that, there are two areas which I think, going forward, we should seriously consider how to fund them. About 2.3 million students are going to sit the national examinations in the next three months. There has been a policy in this country that states that the Government will waive examination fees. The Ksh5.1 billion which is supposed to be going to the waiver of the examination fees has not been factored in this budget and yet we have only three months to the national examinations. This is going to be a challenge to the parents who will be forced to go back to their pockets to pay the examination fees for the students. Going forward, this is a critical issue that we need to consider. The other issue that I think needs to be considered very seriously is the question of the Ksh10 billion that has been reduced from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). The money was supposed to finance Phase II of the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the teacher unions and the TSC. These teachers are parents to the youths who were demonstrating on our streets recently and if this CBA between the Teachers Service Commission and the unions is not sorted out, I am afraid we may see the teachers who are the parents of the Generation Zs joining their children on the streets. This is also another area that we need to put our heads together despite the shrinking fiscal environment and the challenges we are having. Thank you."
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