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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Labour",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the education sector, for instance, you will find that the difference in payments given to the teachers who did A-Levels and those who trained as P1 teacher are enormous. The P1 teaches earned more than the teachers who went up to the A-Levels. We also had untrained teachers with university qualifications who earned less than their graduate counterparts. If you go to the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, you will find that Administration Police were earning less than other police officers. If you look at the clause that provides for that keenly, you will see that, that has something to do with the health sector. Therefore, there is need for us to have a Commission that will be setting and regularly reviewing the salaries of our public servants. Inequality in earning amongst public servants has caused them to have very low morale in the delivery of services. In the health sector, nurses do more work than the doctors although in terms of training, doctors are trained more. However, if you look at the work that the nurses do and the salaries that they earn, the two do not match. There is need, therefore, to have that Commission that will evaluate the work that people do in relation to the amount of money they are paid. When we were writing our Constitution, the public, through various fora, cried and said that state officers should not be increasing their own salaries. That was in reference, probably to Parliament, which was not the case. The Press took it upon itself to mislead the public because we had only adopted the recommendations of the Tribunal that had been appointed to look at our allowances. I will urge the Minister, when he tries to fine-tune this Bill, to ensure that he incorporates the Ministry of Labour as one of those institutions that will be appointing people to the Commission because it is the Ministry of Labour which has been handling most of these matters. It has enough data related to the labour market worldwide. I would appeal that, amongst the appointing bodies, we include the Ministry of Labour because it has sufficient information regarding the labour market across the world. Thank you."
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