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    "id": 1060276,
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    "speaker_name": "Kandara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Alice Wahome",
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        "legal_name": "Alice Muthoni Wahome",
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    "content": "I hope Hon. Members are not making a pass on me. I have big daughters. So, let us talk when we get outside. I give my condolences on behalf of myself, my family and Kandara constituency. I join my colleagues, especially the Hon. Member for Kitutu Masaba, Hon. Mose, as he mourns the former Member of Parliament, the late Samuel Motari Mong’are. I have goggled very quickly to find out who he was. I cannot see much. Therefore, those who are saying we need some archive, record or data are proper. I do not agree that we need monuments. What we need is to take care of the Members who served before 1997. Many of them are suffering. They earned very little money. You know public service is public service. You do the job and the earnings are little. We have seen those Members. I have looked at what they are asking for. I think most of the packages they are getting are not enough. Some are getting less than Kshs2,000. Others are getting Kshs1,000. They come to the Lobby here to see whether an honourable Member can be honourable enough to buy them tea. Those are the things we need to look at - their welfare, even as they become elderly. It is inevitable. They are sickly and they cannot have any useful healthcare. I want to speak to that. I am sure he is one of those who suffered because he served from 1977 to 1979. We need to look and see the kind of pension they are getting, especially these Members. Next time we are mourning, we need to really think how we can address that issue. That is why I was very keen to give my condolences. That is why I was putting an intervention button. Many times we care when people have left. I can see he has several children. It is also important to look at the family. They are mourning today. We will go there and mourn but, going forward, what do we normally do, especially when you are not a sitting Member of Parliament? Even that is something that we need to talk about. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am grateful your eye always catches the Member for Kandara. Ahsante sana."
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