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    "id": 849507,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the Petition by Sen. Seneta. Apart from being very concerned about the issues affecting Kajiado County, she is also one of the most active Members of the Committee on Education. Congratulations Senator for your concern on the issues facing members of these three counties. One of the great responsibilities of this House is to safeguard the welfare of the members of our counties. What happens to people who have not been paid salaries for eight months and yet they have children going to school? How do they buy their food? This is very immoral. I wonder why this is happening. These counties have been given money by us. Investigations must be done to find out the reason for the failure to pay salaries to these people. I suspect that corruption is the main cause of everything in this company. This company has also failed to submit statutory deductions which amounts to Kshs23 million to the respective organizations. This is a crime against humanity. We must act with a lot of diligence to reduce this particular menace. In the Committee on Education, we found out that some universities are also culprits. They are not remitting statutory deductions of their workers for more than six months. This trend must be dealt with accordingly by this House. The petitioners have exhausted other avenues. It is a pity that they have not taken this matter to court. This is a demonstration that they have a lot of faith in this Senate. I hope the Committee that will deal with this particular matter will do it expeditiously, so that these people are assisted. Their recommendations will help this House, members of the counties that we come from and the governors to know that we are the oversight authority. We will continue doing our work to make sure that the welfare of our people is taken care of. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I fully support this Petition. I will visit the Committee that will deal with this matter as a friend to make sure that it is taken seriously."
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