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    "id": 319633,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to present a petition which is duly approved by yourself from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) relating to the current dispute on teachers’ wages. In particular, it relates to the Legal Notice No.16 of 2003. The teachers state that this legal notice is void and that the notice that should be discussed is the Legal Notice No.534 of 1997. They have set out the particulars in this petition which show that Legal Notice No.16 of 2003 was gazetted without their knowledge and without the requirements of the law, that is consultation with the teachers, and that the Government has already partly performed conditions of Legal Notice No.534 of 1997. As late as 2007 they were still implementing it; the petitioners are, therefore, praying that this Parliament looks into the matter and comes out authoritatively on this issue. It is to be remembered that for two weeks now the teachers have been on strike. The casualties are our children, who are suffering. The teachers’ demands are legitimate yet the Government has failed to take any concrete steps on how to fulfill the teachers’ demands which were agreed upon in a bargained agreement. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am aware that this House has a Committee on Delegated Legislation which would be best suited to deal with the dispute on the legal notice together with the Committee on Education, Research and Technology, which is currently handling the matter of the strike. I am, therefore, praying that this petition, which I am going to lay on the Table of the House be dealt with, by this august Assembly, so that we may find a lasting solution to the teachers’ issues. That is the prayer of the teachers. The petition is supported by 21 signatures and it has been duly approved. I beg to lay it on the Table of the House."
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