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    "id": 2737,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 97,
        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Let me say this, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we can have this, but I want again to go through a pay slip from one of the flower farms; I want to table it. The flower farm is owned by an Israeli, and we welcome them; they are wonderful investors. They do drip irrigation like never before; they grow very high quality varieties of flowers; they do good business. The Israeli investor is really welcome in Kenya. I went to their farms in Israel with some two hon. Members from my Committee. In Israel, they pay US$1,300 to the unskilled worker. Then, you have to give them a house, you have to give them an air conditioned room, a laundry machine and so many other things except food and water. That is what they have to do. Then the product which they have there is called a rose flower. I saw that there were about 250 varieties of rose flowers. They go to compete with Kenyan producers out there in the European market. The product from Israel and the one produced in Kenya end up at the same market. The Israeli workers are paid approximately – from my calculation – Kshs120,000 plus all other benefits. But what is he paying the Kenya worker, whom we represent? We are in this House to do just three things, to represent the people, do legislative work and undertake oversight. This is how it goes: days Present - 30; basic pay – Kshs110 per day. That works out to be Kshs3,300. House allowance, Kshs600, overtime at Kshs23.80 per hour works out to Kshs249.90. Leave amount, nil; transport allowance, nil; gross pay, Kshs4,149.90. NSSF, Kshs200; NHIF, Kshs120; welfare, nil; extra advance, nil; total deduction, Kshs320. Net pay, Kshs3,829.90. The farm is called Sinbad and this is the pay slip. We visited there with the local administration the other day – you saw it on the television. They also do not have uniforms; so they are exposed to very heavy chemicals."
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