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    "id": 340373,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the 25th November, 2012, the unregistered Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), the National Nurses Association of Kenya (NAK) and the Kenya Progressive Nurses Association (KPNA) wrote to my Ministry giving seven days strike notice to take effect from the 3rd December, 2012. The letter reached my office on 26th November, 2012, giving several demands one of which was of the immediate registration of the Kenya National Union of Nurses. The other demands related to the Ministry. All of them had been dealt with and the Ministry was under discussion with the nurses’ fraternity. So, there was no cause for alarm on those issues. On the same day, my Ministry invited officials of the said groups to a meeting with me in my Ministry on 27th November, 2012 at 2.30 p.m. given the urgency of the matter. The Ministry of Labour was also invited. The meeting took place in Afya House that same day. Of all the unions and associations of the nurses, the only body that attended that meeting was the KPNA, which after a whole afternoon’s meeting we all came to the conclusion that a strike was not just illegal, but unnecessary and the KPNA said that they were not part of the strike and would call upon their colleagues to do the same. After that, I even went ahead to call Mr. Panyako on my mobile phone to seek audience with the interim officials of the union, but he did not respond to my calls. I even sent him a text message telling him that it is important that we meet, but he did not respond. Instead he sent me a text message saying that only Mr. Munyes could solve their case and only when Mr. Munyes registers the union would they call off the strike. You understand that the Ministry of Medical Services does not register unions and that the nurses are actually striking against the wrong Ministry and punishing Kenyans unnecessarily."
}