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    "id": 370926,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mati",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2469,
        "legal_name": "G.J. Munuve Mati",
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    "content": "I hope and pray that this House will come up with mechanisms of enforcing decisions of the court. Just yesterday, our Committee was here seeking this House to approve the name of the new Solicitor-General. Parliament has been very responsive to the Judiciary. One would like to hope that the haste with which they bring names to be approved here would be the same haste in which they would act to settle such claims. On the issue of the TSC, I support the teachers very strongly. One of the reasons why the strike might be taking a while is because there is no representative of the teachers’ employer, namely, the Teachers Service Commission. There is no commission to negotiate with the Government and for that reason, we have continued to see a protracted struggle between the Ministry and the KNUT. I wish to support the Report, but emphasize that one would like to hope and pray that the Jubilee Members of Parliament present here today will implore the new Solicitor-General to talk to the President’s office or whichever office that compensates the victims of torture and human rights abuses, so that this is settled sooner than later. There has also to be established a mechanism that binds the Government to settle such awards within a given period of time. If that is discussed, that period should not be more than six months. If you get to know some of the victims, and I know all of them, not only Mak’Onyango, I know Gitobu and Mwandawiro Mghanga, these people have been reduced to paupers. They have a right to enjoy the fruits of their work which is the liberty that we enjoy in this House. This House used to be treated to drama during those dark days when Members of Parliament would be arrested in this House without enjoying any immunity. They sacrificed for that purpose, but they continued to suffer. It is like we want to punish them even further for fighting so that we can enjoy the fruits that we so gladly enjoy today."
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