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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I would like to thank and congratulate the Mover of the Bill, Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki for being visionary and having the foresight to see that industrialization is what will revolutionize the economies of our counties and this nation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, standing here on a day that teachers are on strike and when our pupils and students are at home for the last three weeks, I would like to take this opportunity to express solidarity with the teaching fraternity in this nation. I am the son of a teacher. Unlike what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale said, I am one Senator who has a child and has children I sponsor in public schools who are now at home. So, I am directly affected. I am a former teacher. In 1997, I was a teacher in Waondo Secondary School. Therefore, I know the problems and the sacrifices that teachers make. Teachers of this nation deserve to be paid what the competent courts have declared that they should be paid. For those who have been asking where the money will come from, because that has become the popular phrase whenever we do not want to do anything. Remember, when this Senate sought Kshs1 billion to execute its oversight mandate, the question was where the money would come from. Last week, this country was supposed to host a NEPAD Conference which was supposed to draw more than 35 heads of States. However, this conference never took place. There are billboards all over the country, there are adverts in the papers, a lot of money was spent on a conference that did not take place. The same week when teachers are on strike so that they can just be given a little bit of more money---. This increment translates to about Kshs4,000 per teacher, yet we went ahead and publicized, made plans and put up billboards all over….."
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