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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to support this very important Bill. I was fortunate to be in Bomas when the debate on this matter did come up. I listened to all the views that were being expressed by the delegates in Bomas in terms of the discrepancies as they saw them, in terms of the various civil servants working for the Government and being paid from the same purse, but all drawing different salaries for the same job. I could hear the passion by people who were agitated and said for once: “Could we have one body that will harmonize all salaries?” You will find that a driver with certain qualifications in one department does the same work as a driver in another organization and they should earn the same. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I could empathize with them based on my own experience in the accounting field as a consultant who had to sit down with people and design their pay scales and structures. One of the things that we always came up with is that people who do similar work should be paid the same, irrespective of whether one is working for a rich parastatal or for a poor parastatal. In the course of my work, I have had the occasion to hear petitions and pleas from people who are qualified to be in some professional circles asking me to assist them get jobs as drivers. If you ask them why so, when they are qualified to be professionals? They tell you that it is the bottom-line. For example, if in this organization drivers are paid so much, why would I continue slogging as a professional in this organization, while all I want is the take home pay to go and feed my family. That is the saddest thing we can get to. That is the saddest thing in terms of frustration of professionals. We will never grow people who are committed to doing their work. People will be looking at how much they will be getting at the end of the month. Once we harmonize all the salaries and remunerations, then people can move across the various employers and institutions. People can work in counties knowing that they will be paid the same with their counterparts working in towns not considering the cost of living adjustments such as housing, transport and disturbances. People will know that they are equated with their contemporaries in other organizations by being rewarded in the same way."
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