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    "id": 290945,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/290945/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Pesa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Dache Pesa",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the question before us today is not whether or not there is money to be paid. Money is there because Kshs3.34 billion was voted in this House to pay the teachers during the current financial year. This money is with the Treasury. The Minister has come here and he has said that the money is there. The question is bureaucracy in paying this Kshs3.34 billion to the teachers who actually deserve it and it is good that the Minister has assured us that this money will be paid. We are calling upon the Attorney-General and the Controller of Budget to take the least time between now and tomorrow and sit down and resolve this issue. They know better since they are Kenyans. We are talking about teachers that taught them. We are talking about the teachers that voted us here and it is us that actually appointed the two officers in question. We want to ask them to come up and make sure that by tomorrow this money is given to the teachers without any further delay. It would be very sad if this money is returned to the Treasury at the end of the financial year because of the bureaucracy that the Attorney-General and the Controller of Budget cannot resolve in this Government."
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