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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S. W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I want to congratulate my team for compiling this Report. Before I became the Member for Murang’a County, I met several retired teachers whose sole prayer was that when we get to Parliament, we should look into this issue. It is very sad when we have a Government that does not obey a court order. We have lost a lot of money. When the first ruling was made, the Government, through the Attorney-General’s Office, appealed against the ruling in the High Court. The legal fee was Kshs382 million for the first time and Kshs382 million for the second time. That is over Kshs700 million. The Government has gone back to court. When the Committee engaged the offices of the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, we got some unwillingness from these Government officials to pay the teachers. They brought a figure of Kshs152 billion, which the teachers and their lawyers clearly told the Committee was not correct. Somehow, they were trying to tell the Committee that they do not have an idea of the number of teachers who have retired yet the documents are with the Teachers Service Commission. It was very sad for us to interact with those old men and women, some of whom are our parents. My father-in-law is in that lot too. Some of them taught us. That is why we are here in Parliament today. My prayer today is that we support this Committee Report. These retired teachers should be paid immediately. They also said that they are willing to negotiate with the Government to be paid in installments. This money was budgeted for in the 2012/2013 Budget even before we joined Parliament, but immediately after that, it disappeared from the Budget.There is also some unwillingness from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology because they have not budgeted for this money."
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