{"id":1197781,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1197781/?format=json","text_counter":323,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Oburu","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":194,"legal_name":"Oburu Ngona Odinga","slug":"oburu-odinga"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I do not want to be lengthy. Remunerating or giving a lumpsum to former councilors is very important. I was a councilor from the year 1974 to 1975. Those days they were not paid any salary or anything like that. They were only given allowances. My allowance was Kshs250 per month. I would not like to speak much of those days because most of my colleagues - I think all of them - the people I served with, are all dead. This just goes out to show that there is a very high rate of losing that cadre. That is a cadre of leadership that served this country very diligently, yet they are dying at a very high rate because they have nothing. Most of them are living in squalor."}