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    "id": 419600,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I join my colleagues in supporting this Adjournment Motion. The issue at hand is very critical to the people of Kenya because the top echelons of our academia are not on duty for almost one week primarily because of a negotiated CBA that was signed. We know the impact and repercussions that have come as a result of the strike. Very many students have not sat their examinations. Some of them are living in private hostels and will spend more money in paying for their stay, should they resume later on. Although the strike has come, university personnel should have sat down to discuss this. We have key agencies that sit in the universities. We have the university council that has eminent people that sit in it. We have the university management, the university leaders and the leadership at the Ministry of Education. Nobody seems to be giving us the correct position with regard to this dispute. We are hearing that the Kshs329 million has already been paid. The balance of Kshs3.9 million has not been paid. I was a university manager for five years; a principal. Some of my colleagues who are running the universities are saying that Kshs1.8 billion has not been disbursed by the Government. No wonder the Cabinet Secretary and the Treasury people are quiet. Nobody is speaking. We should stand firm and say that we should not allow any mess in the calendar of the university. We should demand the relevant people to sort out their problems. We do not want to hear about it. In some quotas, they are saying that the Narok University has paid. However, they have not remitted anything as a result of the same. They have not paid university staff pension and there is a game that we do not know about. Let them finish their own arithmetic. We, as the Senate, demand, that they sort out this. The union and other lecturers are saying that they want 33.1 per cent increment of their basic salary. The management on one hand is saying that they can sustain 22 per cent of the same. We want them to solve their problem. We are giving them the shortest time possible. One day is sufficient. These are people who are learned. This raises many questions. We have professors earning almost Kshs100,000 while a Member of a County Assembly (MCA) is now getting almost Kshs200,000. What does that mean? With regard to devolution, we have County Executive Committee Members (CECs) who are earning Kshs300,000. These are people who have never 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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