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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F. K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "At the moment, those who are hired are graduates who left university in 2007, 2008 and 2009. This means that students who graduated in 2010 are not anywhere near being employed. The Committee should allow the Ministry to bring a supplementary budget to hire more teachers. This is because 5,000 teachers is a drop in the ocean. The other issue I want to raise concerns payment of teachers. We recently passed a Motion in this House and I hope this will be captured here. If it is not, I again ask that we allocate more money to the officials of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to pay the teachers that retired. I understand that there is a case in court. However, some people will die before they are paid their pension. This is the case and yet this is not captured here although I have checked. Therefore, I request that we get a supplementary budget after the Appropriation Bill so that we can pay the teachers who retired 15 or 20 years ago. These teachers are nagging us. You go home and the first person you see is a retired teacher. They always ask us what they should do. We should not debate in this House in vain. I take this opportunity to tell the Committee of Implementation, of which I am a Member, that this issue of teachers being paid their retirement benefits should be given the first priority. If there is no money, we urge the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to come up with a supplementary budget to pay the retired teachers. As I finish, the other matter I want to raise is the wastage we see in most parastatals. There is a lot of wastage out there. You go to a parastatal yard and you find vehicles which were bought almost three years ago parked because they are not able to service them. I hope that the EMU under the Office of the President will wake up. Again, we have cases where some parastatals are operating without boards. There are cases where a parastatal runs for three or four years without a board or a Chief Executive Officer. That is part of the wastage. What is the Inspectorate of State Corporations doing? We pay its officials who sit at the Office of the President. I know two parastatals which have run for the last three years without boards. How do these parastatals spend money? We also have parastatals which have been running for almost three years without Chief Executive Officers. What is happening with the Inspectorate of State Corporations? Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support."
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