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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity. I congratulate Sen. Sakaja and his team for the proactive approach to this matter. His Committee must reinforce what appears to be a mistake at Government level. Policy is not and will never be law. The Government cannot legislate through the back door. These policies are against the Constitution and the Employment Act. They are violating the rights of Kenyans who want to be employed and the ones in employment. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Bill of Rights that safeguards trade unionism and employment law is under Chapter 4 of the Constitution. It is something that we fought for and cannot be amended without a referendum. There is something about this Government. Every time we are faced with debt or borrowing, it says the problem is the wage bill, yet they have hired people called “Chief Administrative Secretaries” (CASs), whom I do not know what they do and they are well paid. The Government does not want to pay teachers, nurses and doctors well. It wants to put them on contracts. Social security is a right of every Kenyan which means that when they are 60 years old, they should get their pension. Sen. Sakaja, as the Committee discusses this issue, it must take into consideration the people who have worked for this Government and are now queuing at the National Treasury looking for their pension. Teachers who have worked for so long are waiting for two years before they get their pension which is money they have been deducted. The national Government and county governments are full of ghost workers. There are people who are taking double salaries. Those who transited from local Government and joined county governments are paid double the salaries of the people whom they found in service. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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