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    "id": 1506425,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
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    "content": "We have experience from the Members of Parliament who have been there before us. Some of them have been exposed to different challenges in life. You will sympathise with people who have served in the Government in different capacities when you meet them outside there. When you are here as a Member, you are a darling to many, including people you represent in your constituency. But when it is your time to leave this Parliament, you become a pariah. Nobody would even like to associate with you other than your immediate family members. If you have no investment, assets or any other form of development that you would give you cash in times of need, you will suffer alone. You will have nobody to assist you unless you take your own insurance medical cover, leave alone the pension scheme, because you are not covered by Parliament in terms of insurance. Even the old Members of Parliament who served for one term or two are not exempted. Therefore, that exposure to the vulnerabilities of nature outside, leave you exposed. It is therefore, good if you can have access to a pension so that you can set up the way you are going to live if you are not going to be extravagant the moment you leave Parliament. There are people who get elected when they are still young, and as per the pension scheme of the Republic of Kenya, to access a pension, one is supposed to have reached retirement age. That should not be the case with Members of Parliament because some leave this Parliament in their 30s, 40s and 50s. They wait to be 60 years old to access a pension. It may be too late because they may have died out of challenges outside Parliament. For that, I support this Bill. It has come at the right time when Members of Parliament needed it. Thank you."
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