{"id":1506288,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1506288/?format=json","text_counter":59,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Funyula, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo","speaker":null,"content":"Second is on the issue of widows and widowers. The other day, I was in Public Accounts Committee and raised an issue with the National Treasury. I asked them why it is always the case that in pension matters widowers are never considered as beneficiaries. All they said was that they never contemplated that a wife would die and leave a husband. And that is why it is a common practice all over this country…"}