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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "performance and certificates. Whether you are qualified or not, everybody passed through the hands of a teacher at some point in life. We have to respect teachers. If there are people who work very hard in this country, even more than us, they are the teachers and doctors. They work 24/7 and are paid very little. However, to add insult to injury, you deny them their rightful share of the benefits. These people should be paid immediately. In fact, we should not even wait. I understand Kshs 16.5 billion in the Pensions Department can be disbursed first and then the rest will follow. We should not wait any longer because when people retire, they are old and fall sick very easily. Life is very difficult. Most of them have no people to depend on. They depend on their pension. When you deny them their money, you are sending them to an early grave. I want Members of the National Assembly to support the Committee’s recommendation by ordering TSC to pay these teachers as soon as possible. In fact before Parliament resumes, we want to ensure that teachers’ benefits have been paid. The name “teacher” is very valued in other countries. In China, they say a teacher is next to God. In the times of Jesus, apart from being referred to as savour, I have been told this by Wakili Kaluma that he was referred to as “Rabbi” meaning, “teacher”. Teaching is a very noble profession. In this country, we have to see it that way. I am happy that the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, hon. Sabina Chege is here. Most of her colleagues, the legislators seated opposite me, apart from hon. Sakuda, all of them have been teachers. They know what we are talking about. Being a teacher is very difficult. You mould a child from a very early age until they know how to read. They become important people in the society like hon. Kaluma here. You have to pass through the hands of a teacher because without them you cannot be what you are today. For all the people who are opposed to teachers being paid their pension, did they not pass through the hands of teachers? Nobody should stand between the teachers and their rightful entitlement or the dues that they require. I want to support the Committee very much. This pension should not take time because so many teachers have died waiting for the pension which never came. Those who are surviving are suffering and it is like they have been living a mirage; so near yet they cannot get it. I can see the mood in the House is for teachers to be paid their dues. I support."
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