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    "id": 182869,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/182869/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the hon. Member has been in Kenya for some time and he knows what happened to the Ministry of Labour. The Ministry was forced to reduce its staff, and its current Budget is just less than a billion shillings. We have a limited number of staff, and that is why we cannot handle most of these cases. We have so many cases of this kind. We are carrying out an audit to find out how we can fast-track the payments of the people who are injured at their workplaces. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Ministry, or the Minister, has not gone into a slumber. We are very active. It is unfortunate that the Ministry is a tripartite Ministry. It involves two other social partners, namely the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) and the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU). If the FKE fails to agree with the two other social partners, we cannot move. That is what is happening now. In the Ninth Parliament, we enacted five labour laws, but we have not started implementing them because we have not yet constituted the National Labour Board. This is because the FKE is not working with the Ministry and the COTU to ensure that these laws are implemented, so that the workers can benefit from them. October 22, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2887"
}