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    "id": 2740,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2740/?format=api",
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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": "Yes, I will, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Minister has published a Gazette Notice for a 15 per cent wage increment but based on Kshs110 per day, this would work out to Kshs147. So, we do not have any other alternative but come to this House and fix the minimum wage. We do not want to go to riots. Tonight, all workers in 100 flower farms can go on a riot and the Government will be sorting out crises as it is doing with the doctors. We can have sobriety. We can still market ourselves. It will be honourable to have those roses all over the world, but only when they are not grown on slave labour. We are talking about the flower industry. Even if a general worker earns Kshs3,300 at Lari, for instance, you give him water and housing. When you add it up, it is about Kshs8,000. However, a flower worker has to pay rent, buy food and do all other things. This is not acceptable. I have a list, which I would like to table. I would like to sign it because I am the one who typed it; I stand by it. It shows the breakdown of all the flower farms and how much the workers earn. In most of these farms, the workers earn Kshs3,600 or Kshs4,700. There is one farm which pays Kshs8,700. These are big names. They even stage flower shows and other activities."
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