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"speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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"content": "including Members of Parliament who are entitled to pension. They contribute to the pension scheme. It is not free money. It is a contributory pension scheme. Sometimes, it is pathetic when you see the responses we get and what we are branded, as Members of Parliament. To be a Member of Parliament in Kenya is expensive. The expensive lifestyle is contributed by the same citizens who question anything earned by a Member. When members of the public are fundraising, you will never hear any of them inviting a District Officer, a County Commissioner, a Principal Secretary or a Cabinet Secretary. They run to their elected leaders. Some of us who are Nominated Members who do not have any kitty like the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), sometimes go into our pockets to try and assist those we represent. I represent one of the largest constituencies of six million Kenyans with disability. Sometimes they come to my home, some of them crawling because of lack of wheelchairs and I do not have any kitty. I have to go to my pocket, this is not from my salary, but from my life savings from my businesses to assist them. I cannot allow somebody who crawls to my compound to crawl out of the same compound; I have to assist them. In 2022, I will retire from politics. It is too expensive and difficult to be in this House yet we are branded many names, including “M-Pigs.” This House is our work station. We are here on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. On Mondays and Fridays we do committees’ work. I was not trained as a lawyer, ---"
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