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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ong’era",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I would like to commend Sen. Khalwale, the Leader of the Delegation from Kakamega County. Madam Temporary Speaker, it cannot be said many times that teachers are an integral part of this society. They form one of the most essential services, yet they are not recognized and appreciated. This Government has no business saying that they cannot pay teachers. Teachers are not asking for a salary increment, but for payment of the reasonable allowances that they had been promised. When we talk about hardship allowances, these are reasonable allowances. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Government has its priorities upside down. How on earth can this Government talk about laptops when our children are walking to school without shoes? Our teachers who are supposed to teach these children do not even have the knowledge or a shilling in their purses or pockets. It behooves this Government to look for the money, including what they have put in the Budget. You will find that some Ministries have been given three times their budgets. I have the case of the National Intelligence Service (NIS). Why would they get a budget three times more than other Ministries? They have a lot of money which is not properly accounted for and it behooves them to pay teachers’ salaries. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you look at many of our teachers today, we have reduced them to paupers which should not be the case. You have heard each and every Member in this distinguished House say that, indeed, the teachers are the ones who taught us. Look at Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o. He was my teacher at one point. There are many other teachers who taught many."
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