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    "id": 555238,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abass Mohamed",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to support the Report. It is very unfortunate that today, 52,000 Kenyans cannot access their pension after working for this country. Teaching is a noble profession and most of us have been nurtured by teachers. Today, most of us must say “Thank you” to teachers. The same people who have been taught by the same teachers are becoming ungrateful. The likes of Kimemia and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) leaders do not understand the plight of the teachers. This is very unfortunate. This House must support this Report, so that we can give these retired teachers their dues. This country has enough resources. We are spending a lot of money on non- essential services, but we are not able to pay retired teachers from 1997 to date. Some of them have even died because of frustrations. They cannot pay their house rents, educate their children or afford health services. This is very unfair and it will not be fair to leave them unpaid any longer. Having said that, we give a lot of money to retired Presidents and other officers like the Chief Justice (CJ). The other day we passed a Bill here to give them huge amounts of money. This is a one-time payment. The people we are paying a lot of money will be paid until they die. It is easier to pay the teachers than paying other people whom we do not know how long they will take before they die. In my constituency, about 200,000 students do not have teachers. Most of them are not going to school and 92 schools have been closed. If some of these teachers can still teach, we can deploy them to northern Kenya to teach Kenyans who have been neglected as a result of insecurity, which is the responsibility of the Kenyan Government."
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