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    "id": 236677,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Let me continue, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. What is problematic here is the part of negotiation. If I could read from The Standard Newspaper of 30th October, 2006, where the Minister for Education says that: \"We support the Vice-Chancellors' move of dismissing lecturers. There are so many unemployed qualified Kenyans willing to work.\" I do not think that this is a good posture for negotiation because a strike is an acceptable democratic weapon for workers when they are negotiating. When workers strike, what you should do is to bring them to the negotiation table, put your points across and help the process move forward. We have institutions in this country which can help negotiations. The Minister himself appointed a negotiation team and he also knows that there is an inter-university council which can help in negotiations. Striking off the names of university lecturers from the payroll simply because they are on strike when at the same time Kenyatta University was reinstating those who were on strike means that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. I would like to appeal to this House that the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology and the one on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs should look at this matter together with the Ministry of Education to help us move forward. We cannot afford a strike for so many days in our public universities."
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