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    "speaker_name": "South Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Together with my colleagues in the Public Investments Committee (PIC) we were lined up for Order Nos.12 and 13, but since I have been here from 2.30p.m., I want to make some good contribution and also to take care of my time this afternoon. I really appreciate that this Bill has a lot of interest from Members, and I have relaxed Order No. 3. It can be carried forward to maybe next week. However, I want to put my few remarks on this Bill. There should be good clarity, as my colleagues have put, about pension and gratuity. The Members who were in the 11th Parliament have really walked up and down this building near the Pensions Building because they want to be paid their monies. It has been very difficult for them to get that money because there is no clarity between pension and the gratuity. I remember even when the SRC which was then headed by Ms. Sarah Serem reduced the salaries for MPs. The reason she gave was that MPs serve on a five-year term; therefore, if you serve for five years and then the salary is reduced, you are either to take it or stop being an MP by not contesting in another election. Although we are in a contract of five years, she could not explain why the MPs are not paid their gratuity, yet anybody on a contract of five or six years like it happens should be paid gratuity. So, this Bill, as Hon. Mwadime puts it, should have good amendments so that all these issues can be aligned properly. On the issue of the first term MPs who are the majority in this House, it is high time that they should take this opportunity to address it because we do not know what will happen in 2022. Maybe majority of them will come back or fail to come back. So, it high time they made sure that they put this Order in place. 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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