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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "downplay his service to the nation. If we give such a person one and a half years salary for the five years they worked as take off to settle in their new life, it would be fine. The other thing I am proposing is to provide one saloon car. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if what I have proposed is too much, this House will exercise its discretion to reduce. I have no problem but what I have proposed is to give each retiring Speaker – of the National Assembly and the Senate – one saloon car of not more than 2,000 cc. Those of us with vehicles know what I am talking about. This is not being extravagant in any way. The second vehicle should be a Four Wheel Drive of not more than 3,000 cc. Those are the only things, in terms of motor vehicles that I am proposing for Speakers and Deputy Speakers. For the former Prime Minister, I am adding a third vehicle. I am proposing two saloon cars and one Four Wheel Drive cars of the same engine capacity. The former Prime Minister, who is my party leader, is the only individual who will benefit from this arrangement. Wherever he goes, I would like to see a saloon car in front and another saloon car at the rear. He will be in the middle, in the Four Wheel Drive car. I will be very comfortable that my party leader, whom I cherish a lot, is properly guarded and taken care of. I do not like a situation where I do not know how he moves around in this country yet I am a taxpayer and I believe in him. Actually, he is my president because I voted for him. Those who voted for hon. Raila Odinga in 2007 and made him president – I do not want to go to the history – would want to see him taken care of. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the same is true for hon. Kalonzo Musyoka. Hon. Musyoka was the Vice-President for five years. I would like to see him also having one vehicle in front and one vehicle in the rear, with him in the middle with his Four While Drive vehicle. Is that extravagance? In my view, it is not. This country can even afford to pay Kshs1.4 billion to people we do not know. We intend to pay another Kshs3.4 billion. Why can we not provide for people who have offered exemplary service to this country? The other thing is to give them a 15 per cent fuel allowance. Of course, you do not pour water into the fuel tanks to have the vehicles move. You have to put fuel. Give them 15 per cent of the current monthly salary of the office holder. The other thing I have put is provision of medical cover for these people. Other benefits I have proposed for them are with regard to staff, which is found in the First Schedule, the Second Schedule and the Third Schedule of the Bill. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Clause 5 talks about the Speakers; Clause 6 talks about the Prime Minister; Clause 7 talks about the Deputy President and the Vice- President and Clause 11 talks about entitled persons to be covered under any other Act. So, if you are benefiting through this Act, you cannot benefit again through another Act of Parliament. The former Prime Minister was also the Member of Parliament for Langata. He will only benefit under this Act."
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