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    "id": 565844,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "It is Madam Speaker, I stand corrected by my colleagues. How I apologise to the Chair. I did not do it intentionally; it was inadvertent. Hon. Deputy Speaker, under the watch of this particular nominee, the salary of various persons serving in our State Offices have never been harmonised. We may take it for granted but it is a very serious issue. If you go to the profession I belong to, lawyers serving the nation in the Office of the Attorney-General (AG), those serving as magistrates, those lawyers serving in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and those lawyers serving in the various State corporations as legal officers are all earning different pay. This is happening when she is the Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the institution. We may take it as a small thing but the consequence of that is that particular Government institutions have become just but recruitment zones for others. The situation we have in the DPP’s Office, and as we have it in the AG’s Office, is something crying for a more competent person than the one we have before us. We have a situation where people go to the Office of the AG, they get training and then they seek to be magistrates. All this has been happening under the watch of this great lady we are now told is very competent. On the issue of teachers of this country, when we were debating the issue of teachers here the other day, I remember all of us were unanimous that there is none of us here who never passed through the hands of a teacher. Teachers of this country have had to settle the matter of their remuneration in a court of law after a whole two years. What competence are we talking about if the core mandate of the SRC, at which this good lady was the acting CEO, should be dealing with that? We train doctors each year and there are so many of them. We train so many, our universities are full of doctors being trained but our hospitals, up to the dispensary level in the village, have no doctors to serve us. Why? It is because you suffer the pain of training to be a doctor for seven years or so before internship and training. Do you know what doctors earn when they are employed? Below Kshs100,000. That is happening after the SRC has been there since we passed the Constitution with this great lady as the acting CEO. What are we talking about? The incompetence of this lady, and the SRC as a whole, for the period she has been there has seen to it that our people cannot be treated well. Our children cannot be educated. There is a major issue---"
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