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    "id": 725576,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, which is better? Is it to allow Kenyans to die when the same leaders are very busy in the villages looking for votes? It is a very absurd agenda when we are supposed to be dealing with the doctors. Like I said, I watched the clip of Atwoli saying how the strike has been mismanaged. He said that there is a problem in Afya House and the President needs to crack the whip. What does it cost if nothing is moving? You need to reshuffle the officers or remove them. If you watch Cable News Network (CNN) or British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), you will see that when a problem affects some of the nations, officers in charge step aside or they are removed from office. As Kenyans, there are things that we are entertaining but they are not good. Lecturers have been absent from duty for nearly one and a half months. There are over 30 public universities in the entire nation but nobody is teaching students there. My former colleagues are paid peanuts. It is a pity if you look at what MCAs and new employees in the devolved governments are paid compared to what lecturers are being paid. It is a pity that nobody is paying attention. If students are out of class, what is happening that we cannot sit down to negotiate or even talk? There is even more drama because nobody has sat with leaders of the unions. We have the Cabinet Secretary of Education. Late last year, we saw how Dr. Matiang’i exhibited vigour and momentum in making sure that examinations were done properly but we and the entire people of Jogoo House have not seen him sitting down with lecturers, university councils and chancellors to see that the issue is resolved. This is where the Jubilee Government needs to pay attention to some of these details because it is not good for any nation to have students loitering in the streets when they are supposed to be in class. Some students were supposed to finish school in April this year but now they will not. The reason is because nobody---"
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