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"content": "Yes. How important teachers are in this society and that we all pass through the hands of teachers who make a lot of sacrifice to make us the people that we are. In fact, teachers are always looking up to their products. My own class teacher who is a headmaster at Ambassador Pamela Mboya Girls’ High School is proud to see me as a Member of Parliament. She was my class teacher the other day. She continues to teach and produce other students who can become even greater people than her. But the way they look at you is with pride. Not with envy to say that: “Those have passed through my hands and are now better than me.” This has been a pension’s afternoon. If we had just passed the retirement benefits for the retired Vice Presidents, Speakers and Prime Minister without considering this of teachers, we probably will have been accused of taking care of ourselves. But now we speak on a very important matter which cuts across the divide. It cuts across every constituency. It speaks to the poor of the poor. I can only imagine the situations of the retired teachers. You are old, you have spent all your investments educating all your children and now you have retired and you expect to be comfortable. But your children are also still jobless because this country does not have jobs. You have no pension for which you have worked. Pension is not gratuity, pension is contributory. So, you have made your own payments into it and it is becoming a problem when you want to receive it back. I have noted in the Report that the Attorney General (AG) and his Office have consistently absented themselves from meetings, hence making it more difficult for us to reach where we want. The Attorney- General must know that he is at the service of all Kenyans; poor, rich, healthy and sick. He is at their service. His office cannot afford to be seen as an impediment for the good of the Kenyan people. I want to completely agree with the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology for bringing this Report forward. I know we are concluding the budget period. That is why I will be speaking very shortly so that we can conclude this Report today and ensure that the Kshs16 billion is, first of all paid, and the deficit, the in- between Kshs16 billion and Kshs42 billion or some of it that is required is also availed in the 2015/2016 Budget. We have seen that the resolution of the Tenth Parliament to pay Kshs3.3 billion has been ignored. Are we going to be a talk shop? This House is a representation of all the people of Kenya and we speak on their behalf. The power of the people, the sovereignty of the people is vested on us as a House. When we pronounce ourselves and when we make a resolution like we will make at the end of this Session, it must be respected. I want to urge the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, if anybody does not respect this resolution that we will make, action must be taken. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) must then take the responsibility for not implementing a resolution of this House. We cannot be talking on behalf of the people; on behalf of the downtrodden and somebody sitting in some office affords to ignore a resolution of this House. On the matter of legal fees, the Government cannot be exposing itself in that manner. It cannot expose itself by paying almost a billion shillings. I have spoken before in this House about legal fees and how we get ourselves, as a Government, paying The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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