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    "id": 705552,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/705552/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "I would like to support my brother, Hon. Simba Arati for bringing this Petition before the House. If you look at the way we treat Kenyans who are working in those kinds of jobs, as a society, we have not been very sensitive to their needs and wishes. Like my colleagues have said, you will find that the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) deductions are not remitted. You will find that those individuals are not even given sick or leave days. Any time they raise those critical issues - as the Petition by Hon. Simba Arati has stated - there is victimisation and they are chased away from the areas they are working. Why those companies advertise the pictures of those workers and say that they have now been unceremoniously dismissed is because they do not want them to get jobs anywhere else. Those are Kenyans of good behaviour and who have been serving diligently. Some of them do not even get promotions. I would like to ask the Departmental Committee on Labour to take this matter expeditiously and make sure that they get to the bottom of the issues. It is not about Lavington Security only. Let us look at all the security companies that are working in Kenya and make sure that they accept best practices and pay our workers the amounts they deserve."
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