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    "id": 881682,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/881682/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13435,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
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    "content": "at 40 per cent unemployment and under-employment. We need to rethink about this issue of strikes in this country. Should we have 1,000 people earning Kshs10,000 a month or 2,000 earning Kshs5,000 a month? The way to deal with this strike is: Is it salary increment they want or do we need to have more people absorbed into the workforce earning a minimum or lower wage? The first strike in this country was by the teachers in 1962 before Independence. We have had 19 strikes since then by our teachers. We have had countless strikes by our nurses. Who are the people who attend those schools? It is the have nots of this country. The son and daughter of that poor man who goes to a primary school and there is no education for months because our teachers went on strike. Our nurses have had countless strikes. Who are the most affected? Those people that cannot afford to seek medical attention at the Nairobi Hospital, Aga Khan and MP Shah. Some of those people have even died. But, today, I watched in amazement and awe the speed at which we averted this strike. But why did we do this? This is because it affected the class of people that cannot be touched in this country. That is why those employees were clobbered by the police. How I wish that strikes by our matatus that made people walk to work, or strikes by the teachers that made the sons and daughters of the poor men in this county not go to school, the strikes by nurses that made people die in hospitals could be reversed and averted in the speed at which we handled that strike. With that, thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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