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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Chelaite",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services",
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        "legal_name": "Alicen Jematia Ronoh Chelaite",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. On the issue of the economy, I am happy about the way it is growing. I am happy about the way the Ministry of Finance is turning our economy around. I am happy about the way Kenyans are paying taxes. However, when we, as leaders, in this august House keep on blaming the Ministry of Finance yet we are doing nothing--- Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say this very seriously because when they start blaming the Ministry for having employed members of one community in this country, if that community or those people who have been employed in the Ministry of Finance have done a commendable job and the economy is improving, why are we bringing up the issue of tribalism? I would like to blame the leaders. They are the people who are promoting tribalism in this country. 218 PARLIAENTARY DEBATES March 28, 2007 Instead of thanking those who are working very hard, they go on looking at who is who in organisations. They look at who is \"Kamau, Otieno or so and so\". Why are we looking at who is who and which community they come from? We should be looking at the performance. That performance is what makes the country to develop. However, it is not a matter of the tribe or community which is doing that work. I would also like to talk about the Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development. I do not think this Ministry has done enough and I want to wake them up. In my own constituency, Rongai, I have a sisal plantation which belongs to one person; a Mzungu, who owes the workers over Kshs150 million. The case has been taken to court. It has taken about four years, yet is it not being finalised and the prosecutors come from the Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development. Why has this case taken so long, yet this one man is enjoying the sweat of those people? Up to now, they have not paid the workers their monthly pay and nobody is taking any action. I want to ask the Minister himself to go to Rongai, Mogotio Sisal Plantation and see for himself the way the workers are living and their welfare. The other day, the Departmental Committee on Health, Housing, Labour and Social Welfare came to that plantation. I took them round and they saw it for themselves. I am also wondering why the House Committee has not brought the report to this House. I hope they are going to do that so that hon. Members can debate that issue and put it to an end. I also want to talk about the issue of squatters in this country. Squatters are suffering a lot in the Rift Valley Province, and particularly in Nakuru District. We have some settlement schemes and Government money has been used to--- Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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