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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "have contributed a lot. Those are the people we want, when they retire, to live honourably and in a very sane way. We need to define again up to what extent we are going backward from this point or moving forward. When we talk of retirement, it is something which comes after service, so that we do not drag back again and say, someone else retired 10 years ago and needs to be factored in. Or when it comes to this issue of politics, when you are a retired Deputy President, you should be at home. You do not retire and then we see you tomorrow, wanting to run for the presidency or the Deputy President again. When you retire, you retire! The Deputy President is the principal assistant to the President. Those are people who hold high offices in the society and they require a lot of respect from all of us. Apart from those, I have been meeting former Members of Parliament who have been in this House for a while, some for one term and others even more than two terms. I have seen them living in abject poverty. We also want, at some point, even Members of Parliament who have served for even one term to enjoy those benefits. There are those Members of Parliament who served in the 9th and 8th Parliaments. If you see the kind of life they are living, they are very miserable. At that time, they really contributed towards development and the economy of this country. But by then, maybe, their salary was not good enough to attract good benefits. We need to review that so that we can have a kind of uniformity, between those Members of Parliament at that time and now. Coming back to the Deputy President and designated offices, those are people that, when they were in office, served Kenyans with due diligence and with a lot of selflessness. Those are people who have some employees, gardeners, cooks and drivers, who still need their assistance. We need to have this Bill go through so that they can be assisted and live a dignified life. That way, even tomorrow and the generations to come; they will live to be remembered. With those kinds of positions, apart from the benefits in terms of retirement and monetary terms they will receive, those people also need to be considered in some other ways. We should assign them with security, vehicles and other services. So, I want to take this opportunity to congratulate my friend hon. Mbadi for bringing this Bill and I support it. Thank you."
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