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    "id": 344458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I support this particular Bill, I am a little bit concerned by the reasons given by the Minister. He says the sole purpose of this Bill is for the President. Then I become very worried that the Minister for Finance only thinks about his boss. Is he aware that just the other day the Speaker instructed the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations to look into the issues of retired military men? For example, a man like General Mulinge who is on retirement is only earning a pension of Kshs17, 000. Why did you not think about a man like that one? Many other civil servants who retired many years ago are earning peanuts and yet they served this country. Why did you not think about these ones first and then bring this one as the last one? You are talking about taking care of inflation of somebody who is going on retirement while we have soldiers and policemen who are basically fighting for their salaries to be increased so that they can be able to deliver services. Why have you as the Minister for Finance not thought of these ones first? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support this particular Bill, I want to ask him that by the time he comes for the next Committee of the whole House he should have brought another Bill for all these retirees who are languishing in poverty after having served this country for many years. With these few remarks, I support."
}