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    "id": 290938,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/290938/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwatela",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Calist Mwatela",
        "slug": "andrew-mwatela"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, first of all, I would like to thank hon. John Pesa. Initially, he brought a Question here regarding this matter and I am the one who responded to it. We undertook, as the Ministry of Education, to fast-track payments of these dues to teachers. So, the Ministry of Education is fully committed to making sure that teachers earn their pensions in accordance with the laid-down procedure. The pension laws in this country are clear. You cannot withhold anybody’s pension for any reason. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, what is most disturbing in this matter is that this is a court award and anybody pretending that he can withhold an award, that person should have first of all gone to court. The matter had been disposed of at the Court of Appeal and I would like the House to realise that the Ministry of Education has no qualms about these teachers being paid their dues. I do not think that the Ministry of Finance has any problems either because that is how they ended up disbursing this amount. Upon the Ministry of Education realizing that we needed to have these teachers paid, the amount was allocated and someone out of the blues decided that, that should be stopped. I fully agree with this Motion that the teachers should be paid not tomorrow but now."
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