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    "id": 20742,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/20742/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "I am yet to find a government anywhere in the world that practises discriminatory practices in employment. How do you get qualified teachers? When they are on formal permanent and pensionable schemes, you pay them Kshs40,000. Then we decide to say that 18,000 of them must be on contract and pay them peanuts of Kshs10,000 and yet, we have a Minister for Labour in charge of industrial relations. In fact, the Minister for Labour must take the Government to court for violating the Employment Act. Why would you want to discriminate your own employees? The Government must be the first performer to demonstrate to the private sector how employment can be done and what decent incomes must be earned. But they are busy every year announcing minimum wages when they are discriminating on contract teachers vis-a-vis the other teachers. We need 265,000 teachers. Currently, we have 220,000 teachers. We are only saying that the 18,000 who are already on contract will not require the resources you are talking about. Put them on permanent and pensionable terms as agreed previously by the same Government two years ago. We are also saying that we need an additional 10,000 teachers. I am not going to lament like the rest of this Executive. I am in Parliament! We want to give notice to this Government that if children in Turkana, Naorot and Lokiriama with only two children for eight classrooms--- As for the Appropriations Bill and the Finance Bill, we are going to defeat it if they do not pay teachers. Get the kshs4 billion you stole from the Ministry of Education to pay our teachers."
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