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    "id": 120834,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Michuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
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        "legal_name": "John Njoroge Michuki",
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    "content": " On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am a pensioner myself. Although pension is not a right, in the sense of human rights, pensions are earned. Everyone should be paid one’s pension but we have an obligation, as a House, to defend the Constitution of this country. If you pay today money that you are expected to pay in the year 2011, to say that you are not drawing monies that you should not have drawn at that particular point in time is avoiding to be reasonable. So, how do you pay money earlier than expected other than by drawing from the Consolidated Fund? Doing so would be drawing money that was not provided for at that particular point in time because the law had not been changed. So, what I am saying is that, as much as we want people to benefit, we must do this within the provisions of the Constitution. The President is available to assent to a Bill, unless somebody is afraid about the basis on which he has drawn such Bill."
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