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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Having said that, Madam Temporary Speaker, let me try and make the following proposal. I agree that we need to look at the conditions of work and service for teachers. That is the most important issue. Indeed, we need to do this in a bipartisan way because this is a national problem. The solution will come from a bipartisan process. Madam Temporary Speaker, in a bipartisan solution, you will realize that there are two areas in which we have had a lot of Commissions since Independence; it is the area of education and land. I remember soon after Independence, we had the Ominde Commission and other Commissions have followed, like the James Mwangi Kamunge Commission, and so on. You can count a lot of Commissions on education, which means that education is a major problem, just as land is. Having said that, Madam Temporary Speaker, if you look at the recommendations of most of these Commissions, they have always been bipartisan or national. One of the things we must realize at the moment is that if you are the Minister for Finance and you are faced with teachers demanding salaries, and you have a finite budget, you have to look at your budget and decide; where am I going to get the cuts from to pay the teachers, because the budget is finite. Sen. Mugo knows that this is what we did in the Cabinet; we looked at the budget and asked: “Where can we make the cuts to pay the teachers and the medical professionals?” Those who are making the proposal that the cuts should come from the laptop initiative are not against the laptop initiative. They are only saying that given that the budget is finite--- The amount allocated for purchase of laptops can be spent now to solve the problem while in future we look at how we can have this laptop agenda progressively. In any case, we should not just look at it as laptops. We should 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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