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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": "former President, Hon. Mwai Kibaki, for 50 years, you should be entitled to a pension for that period. If you have served for five years and 15 years like me and others here, it should be the same. I hope that the Committee will come up with that amendment to enable first-termers to benefit which is not in this Bill. Hon. Mwadime and Members of his Committee are here. I really hope that they will ensure that amendment will be brought at the Committee of the whole House. Members of Parliament who are in their first term are the majority here. Please, stand up for yourselves. We will support you and ensure that we pass that amendment. If it takes us to override the veto of the President by two-thirds majority, we will stand up to the occasion and do what is right for ourselves and future Members of this House. It is upon us to defend the dignity of this House now and in future. The medical scheme for the former Members of Parliament is genuine. We should look into ways that we will do it in a very modest way. We should not make it too expensive. It is their right. This scheme should enable the former Members of Parliament to access adequate medical care in their sunset years. There is a clause which says that our spouses—widows or widowers—will be supported in future. That is a good clause. It is really important for them to get that benefit. Even in other sectors in the public service and corporate world, they are entitled to those benefits, when one spouse passes on."
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