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    "id": 340393,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will answer these questions very systematically. How many deaths? The DMS is still compiling the figures. On whether the Ministry of Labour has done something to register the union, yes, it has done that. When I was giving my Statement I said that when I called a meeting in my office, officers from the Ministry of Labour were there. However, only members of the Progressive Nurses Association (PNA) attended. The others refused to attend. I even attempted to contact them through my phone, but they declined to come. If I showed you the text messages that they send to me, you will realize that these people just wanted to strike and they did not want to reason. When we were demonstrating against Moi, we reasoned and we were not zombies just demonstrating! The Executive cannot be blamed because it is set up by the Constitution. The Executive has laws to implement in this country. When anything is done it is you who say, “As by law established.” That means that with the registration of unions, there is a law guiding that process. The Executive cannot disobey the law that it has made. I have seen unions which have had conflicts with the Ministry of Labour, but they go to court and they have been registered through that process. When the officers from the Ministry of Labour came to my office they explained this and the PNA agreed with what they were doing. That is why I wanted other leaders to come, sit with us and listen to reason. Why are we saying that those nurses should be arrested? If you were in my office the day before yesterday, you could understand this. I went to my office when those people were in the parking lot. When their leaders came to meet me, rather than wait for the leaders to meet me they forced their way into the offices. They went to the DMS’s office and broke the door. They came to my office and they were just about to break the door when the police arrived. This is not how to demonstrate. We never broke anybody’s door when we were demonstrating against Moi regime. There is some order and civility in demonstrating. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on notices to the Government, we received a seven day notice and I stated after receiving that notice, that within a few days, I will call for a meeting."
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