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    "id": 319639,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/319639/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me also support the petition by Ms. Martha Karua. I think it is important for the Government to negotiate with the KNUT and the teaching fraternity from the point of honesty. I think there has been a lot of dishonesty on the part of the Government. The Government needs to be very clear and tell teachers what they intend to do rather than playing cat and mouse game with teachers and our children are at home. The last comment I want to make is with regard to the powers of the National Assembly. When I see Members calling upon the Government to give teachers money, sometimes I wonder whether we know that we have the capacity and the ability to offer this money to the teachers. Let this matter be taken up by Parliament. We are the ones doing the Budget. If the Executive does not want to respond to the teachers’ plight, this Parliament can do it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, probably we have been presented now with an opportunity, through this petition, to correct what has defeated the Executive for over two weeks and even beyond. This matter has been with the Government for quite some time. The teachers had even given a warning early enough. This House should rise to the challenge and take up this matter and correct it. Thank you, Ms. Martha Karua, for bringing this petition."
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