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    "id": 568515,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/568515/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "The Act stipulated that there must be people who understand the matter that is to be dealt with in that particular commission. So, it is going to be a cost saving measure. If you look at the aspect that we need to fund like when you see the courts making rulings that teachers should be paid more---When I was reading the newspaper, I saw that the minimum pay for teachers was to be something like Kshs16,000, and they are supposed to stay in school from morning to evening, teaching in a country we say must attain Vision 2030. In fact, some of the money that will be saved from this should go towards improving the minimum pay for the teachers in this country, because there is no way we are going to develop a country from the top. We can only develop by developing institutions that will bring some kind of sense in our society. This is out of experience that we have had and it has come at the right time. It is now five years since we put the Constitution 2010 in place. That experience should be enough for us to make changes to the law, particularly with regard to commissioners. It is going to be important that we look at all the commissions and reduce the number of commissioners. There is a commission we created whose commissioners we reduced to four and it is working very well. It deals with gender issues. There was a lot of tug of war. I remember when we went to Mombasa, there were a lot of arguments about the number being four and some people coming from outside. There is an activist who put us in this kind of situation and who came to argue about the number; the main reason why they wanted this number was so that we could appoint people on the streets to run the commission and control the Government. The most important thing is to look at how effective that commission is. That is an experience that we can borrow from."
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