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    "id": 236665,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, they are public documents. The basic salary of a principal of a college is Kshs252,000 and when you add the allowances it comes to Kshs652,000. If you go to the administrative side of the universities, you will be okay. If you remain teaching in the classroom, you earn much less. We must think of competitiveness when we are talking about university salaries. The other document I want to lay on the Table is a study that was done by the Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) when I was a Minister. It gives the Government plenty of evidence and information on how to deal with salaries for university lecturers, allowances and so on especially with regard to addressing the issue of competitiveness. Competitiveness must be looked at as domestic competitiveness regarding other comparable institutions in the economy; regional competitiveness regarding other universities in the region; and international competitiveness. Again, that document was very well prepared and submitted to the Government on an objective ground on which they could make their decisions in improving the terms of service of university lecturers. When I was a Minister, in conjunction with Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), I instituted a project called the \"Brain Gain Project\" which was meant to address this issue and see how we could begin gaining the brains that we have lost to other universities as a result of our being non-competitive. It is, therefore, important that if we really need to retain our academic staff, then we should reward them objectively given the issue of competitiveness. This is a very important economic concept that you cannot run away from if you are engaged in an open market economy. Now, what is the cause of the current standoff? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the cause of the current standoff, I think, is just a lack of negotiation skills on the part of the Government."
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