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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "and later on he exited. Do you know where he lives today? The university could not accept him back and neither was he re-elected. Therefore, I want to urge you and to give you that assignment to find out where he lives and what he is doing. That is the state of all other former Members of Parliament. Just imagine he was a professor. What about others who are not as educated, young, financially and professionally unprepared and yet they have families? That is the question really that I want us to reflect on. Therefore, most of them having been State officers, it becomes difficult to properly reintegrate and assume that normal life and remain relevant to their society. It is becoming difficult for such Members to feel part and parcel of the ordinary civilian population and their employment prospects are greatly reduced. It has become psychologically difficult for such Members to adjust to life outside Parliament. This affects such Members psychologically. As a result, there are stories of former Members of Parliament, including their partners, who are suffering from psychological break down, many divorce rates, heart attacks, alcoholism, debts and even bankruptcy. These are the realities of the lives of former Members of Parliament. Therefore, I am not guaranteeing that this Bill will 100 per cent cure the problem, but it will provide legally acceptable mechanisms on how both ourselves as current Members of Parliament and the other State mechanisms will deal with issues affecting the former Members of Parliament. Therefore, the Bill seeks to come to the rescue of former Members of Parliament, some of whom have offered selfless service to the country. The Bill is aimed at ensuring that former Members of Parliament receive necessary counselling which is important in ensuring that they are able to get back to ordinary life. The Bill also aims at ensuring that employment prospects of such Members are not badly diminished and in respect, aims at offering consultancy services to Members. So many former Members of Parliament are talented. We have so many State institutions. Why do we not professionalise and allow the State to utilise that experience, the expertise of former Members of Parliament in managing some of these key State institutions? We have over 300 quasi-state institutions. If somebody was to be magnanimous through a legal framework and employ the services of at least two former Members of Parliament in some of these institutions, then 300 times two, it means that over 600 Members will be relevant in our national institutions. This at times happens but it happens in the wrong way and so this Bill provides that platform and network that will allow the former Members of Parliament to engage or continue engaging and remain relevant to everyday activities of the Republic of Kenya. This Bill establishes the Parliamentary Society of Kenya whose functions among others is to facilitate professional counselling services, provide advice on retirement, advice on reemployment, retraining and also financial planning for former Members of Parliament. I realise that for five, ten or 15 years you have been an active politician. If you were a doctor I can assure you that you will have lost most of your medical talents because politics is a very difficult profession. You require somebody to debrief and retrain you so that even if you have to resume your former profession, you are prepared and can handle your patients properly. If you are a financial expert you need to do the same. If you are engaged in other professions you need also to do the same. If you are a lecturer, for The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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