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    "content": "It is painful that most of these people who should have benefited are no longer there. Their children are suffering because they lack school fees, clothing and shelter and yet their fathers and mothers rendered the country service. We have a new constitutional dispensation that says that Kenya will adhere to the rule of law. It is painful that after a court has made a ruling that the teachers be paid, other bureaucratic issues are being raised. The Controller of Budget is saying one thing, the Attorney-General is saying another thing and yet the matter is simple; pay the teachers for the service they rendered. The courts have ruled. I think what they need is a court order. The TSC is very willing to pay. All that the TSC is waiting is to be paid the money to channel to the teachers. The TSC knows they are teachers. The TSC has a list of those teachers who retired. Those who were in service in 1997 were paid the first phase. The payment was spread in four years. It was to be paid in 1998, 1999 and 2000 was to be the final year. After paying them in 1997, the Government disagreed and did not honour the agreement. So, there was a strike by teachers in 1998 and another strike in 2002."
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