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    "id": 548764,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Report and the recommendations by the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. I have gone through the Report. I do not understand where the problem or complication is coming from. To me, it looks fairly straightforward. Those teachers have worked and had negotiations between their representatives and the employer. From the Report, I am seeing that those discussions, negotiations and agreements were voluntary. I cannot understand why they are not paid. I have noticed that the Government at one time, through the Minister, I think, while using the big-stick- approach, was trying to wriggle out of the agreement. But the courts ruled that, that agreement was valid. We should resolve and state very strongly that those teachers deserve the pension which was discussed and agreed voluntarily and the courts have upheld the agreement. Whoever is supposed to pay the pension should be compelled to do so. Waiting for all those years - which are soon going to be 20 - is a big shame! What is the purpose of pension? The purpose of pension is to enable the people who have been working and have contributed to this society and country have a reasonable and good standard of living when they retire. We are treating those teachers very unfairly. To me, this is a human rights issue. Since we have exhausted the courts in Kenya, including the Supreme Court, I do not know where we should go. Perhaps, those people, or whoever is refusing to pay the teachers, should now be referred to the Human Rights Court at The Hague. This is a serious matter; it is a matter of human rights. We should avoid those technicalities that are being used for dilly-dallying so that the teachers can be paid because they deserve it. To give other people a chance to contribute, I support this Report and I hope that it is going to be implemented. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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