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    "id": 582984,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/582984/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, as I join the Mover of this Motion, Sen. Wetangula, I want to urge all Senators present and every Kenyan of goodwill to stand and say that the teachers are asking for a just cause which was already approved. Most of what the teachers are asking for is contained in their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). It is not something that has just been dropped from the blues. There is a difference between something that you are demanding and something that has already been programmed by law to be given. Madam Temporary Speaker, even the highest court in the land has declared that teachers have a right to be paid their salaries including an increment of 50 to 60 percent. Any nation that does not look after the welfare of its people or any nation that does not look at the key human resource is headed for disaster. When teachers have come to a standstill the way they are today, where will we be in the years to come if the children are not going to be taken through the system. Academia is the only hope left because agriculture is almost dead, most of the other hopes that we had like industries are going down. The last one which we were now depending on is in academia – in primary and"
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