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    "id": 592171,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Gold; so I am informed. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was making a very important point about manual workers either in a factory or storage in cereals board. You see young men carrying loads as heavy as 80 kilogrammes. In fact, some of them carry it alone. When you see them you sympathize because after that you can imagine how much they are paid per day. It is not more than Kshs200. What does that tell you? You find some of them die at the age of 30 because they cannot afford medical examination and medicine. What they do next is to just drink chang’aa to please themselves, and be fit to work the following day; they do not even eat well. So, I want to thank Hon. Tiren for having come up with this Bill. We should pass it because our boys and girls are suffering. If you reduce the load to 50 kilogrammes, this will attract more labourers and we can get ladies handling this. Most ladies are not even employed and this will be one way of creating employment. The other thing is the penalty to go with this. I want it to be enforced immediately, so that factories can start producing packages of 50 kilogrammes as opposed to 90 kilogrammes; that they will be handled appropriately, and anybody breaking the law should be punished. Lastly, I want to say that they should also look at the remuneration of these workers; maybe at the Committee Stage we will come up with how much they should be paid, so that people handling this kind of work can be paid better and stop going for chang’aa . I support the Bill. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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