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    "id": 837198,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/837198/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ekal",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13226,
        "legal_name": "Malachy Charles Ekal Imana",
        "slug": "malachy-charles-ekal-imana"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the idea of policies to guide the way our people work in this country is very important. This is in the sense that, poor people and those that are less educated get misused in different places when they work. It has been mentioned that the working conditions of citizens of this country in places where roads are being built are not good. For example, where we have the Chinese, our people work for a long time for very little. I do not know if it is something that happens in China or just that these people are pushing us down. They do not pay them much and they expect so much from the youngsters that work on those roads. It is very important to have policies that have guidelines that say, for example, for someone working for so many hours, he or she should be paid so much per hour. That way, everybody knows, for example, what they will be paid at the end of a 10-hour work day. Otherwise, without such policies people get abused and misused. There was an instance yesterday where I was told that there was a fight on one of our roads in Turkana County between Turkana youngsters and some Chinese. I am told somebody got hit with a karate blow right to the ground. These are things we do not want to see in this country. The reason for that is because we do not have policies that guide payments per hour for those who work on these particular roads and other projects. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}