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"speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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"content": "Finally, there is the issue of the remuneration or payment of staff. You know Members’ services and facilities include the staff that support Members. I have heard a lot of Members lament here that, as we speak, it has taken quite a while before some of the staff is paid. This is an issue that needs to be addressed even more seriously because there is no point in Parliament ensuring that Members of Parliament and members of staff who are on permanent and pensionable terms are being paid promptly and then leaving members of staff who are working in the constituency offices going for weeks and sometimes months without their pay. We need to understand what the problem is so that we can deal with it because it cannot be that there is no money for these other category of staff and yet, there is money for Members and other category of staff. Something needs to be done because it is not only against the law…"
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