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    "id": 346452,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to second the Bill moved by my colleague, the Minister for Finance on the retirement benefits of the Deputy President and the Designated State Officers. Again, I would like to remind the House that when I first proposed the idea of giving retirement benefits to the President in 1998, there was an avalanche of opposition to the idea because people were focusing on the then President for reasons that were both sentimental and real. However, Parliament, in its wisdom and the Attorney-General having taken over my Bill passed it into law and today it has become an institutional affair. In the same manner as the Finance Minister has explained, we are establishing institutions and looking into the future. Therefore, as the Minister has pleaded with the House, let us set this precedent for the future. Indeed, as Cabinet Secretaries become fewer as prescribed in the Constitution, the retirement benefits of serving Cabinet Secretaries, which for all intents and purposes will be civil servants; and knowing as my colleagues in the Cabinet know that they make substantial sacrifice burning the midnight oil besides being Members of Parliament to serve this nation, I think that the sentiments expressed by the Minister that in future they should be considered favourably is something that the House should appreciate."
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