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    "id": 383212,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
        "slug": "otieno-kajwang"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, bado mapambano, because the teachers are telling us that. Teachers have brought our education system to a halt. It is a national crisis. When I listened to the Cabinet Secretary for Labour, Social Security and Services saying that their agreement has been abrogated because it has stayed for 16 years, I thought he was making a very serious mistake. I thought so, because he has been a politician. I thought he could have been better than Kaimenyi. Listening to teachers talking, he was worse than him. When I saw the tears of Atieno, I thought it was a contradiction. You know what I said first: Usually when pupils are told to go home, they are happy because they have a lot of time to go and play. But Atieno is crying that she went to class and she was told to go home because the teachers are not there. It seems that our children have matured. They know that they are losing something fundamental by going back home. Nobody can say that when a Government promises something, that Government can change. That one is a banana republic. That is why we carry money in our pockets, because it is a promise. It is also a promise by the Government that what you are carrying in your hand is Kshs100. If the Government says that we will pay you so much, the Government cannot change. If it changes, then it destabilizes everything. We start doubting the money in our hands and all the promises that the Government has ever given. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the Bible, there was a king called Nebuchadnezzar. One of his advisors cheated him that he could bring more taxes into his treasury if he made a law that all the Jews should be killed. He made that law because he wanted his treasury to be full. Later on he realized that his queen was actually a Jew. He realized that the queen had also to die because he had made the law. Then he asked his advisors: What do we do when we have made a bad law in this empire? He was told that after a king had made a law under his own seal, the law could be changed. He said: In The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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