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    "id": 1506416,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1506416/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere South, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Eng.) Nebart Muriuki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I have been here since 9.00 a.m. I want to thank Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu for bringing this very important Bill about the welfare of parliamentarians. As has been mentioned by my other colleagues, this Bill was long overdue. It has taken 10 years for it to be brought to the House to align our pension scheme with the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. Apart from the Bill aligning the pension scheme with the Constitution, it is also aligning it with the times we live. Anybody can be a parliamentarian today. Some of our parliamentarians join Parliament after leaving college, which means that that is their career. They are career parliamentarians. When the Act was initially passed, it appears as though most Members of Parliament were elderly men. That is why the Act only talks about widows and not widowers. We need to recognise that we have single Members of Parliament. If something happens to them, they also need to be catered for by the pension scheme. Instead of talking about widows or widowers, we also need to bring in the next of kin as beneficiaries of the pensions of Members of Parliament."
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