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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.45 of 2019) be now read the Third Time. I just have a few comments to make. First, I want to sincerely thank the House for supporting this Bill. Some of the MPs who served from 1983 to 2001 and are pensionable, as we speak, actually earn peanuts in the name of pensions. Some of them earn as low as Kshs6,000 per month and that is why we have brought this to correct that so that, at least, they get Kshs100,000 per month. The money that most of these people need is basically for medication. Many of them are aging and are sickly, but they have nothing to even buy medicine. I have seen some reports, especially by Mr. Ndugu Wainaina, who wrote about a few things that I think were informed by lack of understanding of what is in the Bill. He was questioning whether the Pensions Act was in existence during the time that the former MPs we are proposing to get pensions were in service. In fact, my answer to him is that that is the reason this Bill is covering that period from 1983. The Parliamentary Pensions Act came into effect in 1983. That is why we could not go earlier than 1983. You could not make MPs who served at a period when the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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