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    "id": 582962,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/582962/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the House do now adjourn. Everybody in this country knows what is going on in the teaching fraternity and in our schools. Madam Temporary Speaker, since I have only ten minutes, I will be very quick. It is the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) that took the teachers to court and it ended up losing at every stage up to the Supreme Court. Teachers have been asking for a nominal salary increment that is not even commensurate or comparable with the workload they have or salaries paid to other Kenyans in similar positions. A quick example will show that a junior clerk at the TSC at job Group G earns Kshs35,353. An equivalent P1 teacher earns only Kshs16, 692. A graduate teacher earns Kshs31,020, his or her equivalent working at TSC earns Kshs55,659. Down the line, there is the Chief Principal, the highest a teacher can be in this country who earns Kshs109,089. The Secretary to the TSC which is the highest someone can go, earns Kshs526, 057. Look at that disparity! What the teachers are asking for is not even astronomical. A calculation of what would aggregate the salary increment to teachers is not astronomical figures that we have been hearing from the Government. If the Government was to agree to pay the teachers the contested salaries, it is going to cost the exchequer Kshs17 billion per annum, no more than that. It is not the Kshs98 billion you have been hearing, the over Kshs80 billion you have been hearing, it is only Kshs17 billion per annum."
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