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    "id": 1370928,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1370928/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this House must learn to be angry enough. We have been elected to represent the people of Kenya directly. It is in this House that the voices of millions of Kenyans are heard. The Senators and the Members of the National Assembly are people who have sacrificed their ambitions in business to serve the people of Kenya. We have sacrificed our ambitions in the civil society where sometimes, the remuneration is 10 times more than the money that Members of Parliament (MPs) get. For example, the best performing bank in Kenya pays its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kshs10 million or more, per month. The spirit of sacrifice that these Senators are putting in this nation is the same spirit of sacrifice that goes into the staffers that serve in their respective offices. It is indeed sad that the National Treasury can choose to hold on to the pay cheque of the staffers of MPs for over three months yet the Executive is balling in money. I do not agree with the notion that there is no money in this country. I hold the notion that the money in this country is wasted by people in the Executive who are swimming in money. Ladies and gentlemen, I will demonstrate that to you. Today, the allocation for MPs to compensate their staffers is Kshs811,000 and Ksh400,000 on average for the nominated Members. We have 416 MPs in this country. If you do the math, the National Assembly and the Senate only needs about Kshs337 million per month to take care of their staff. The Senate is even better because, it only needs Kshs46 million to take care of their staffers. For now, two months going, we need"
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