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    "id": 504143,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "experienced life when outside Parliament. For five years before the last elections, I was not an hon. Member of Parliament. I really want to thank hon. Keynan and I wish he had brought this Bill some 10 years ago when he first came to Parliament. This is because, if you go to the lounge and to the streets, you will meet some former hon. Members who made great contributions to this country’s welfare and they are in a terrible situation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you come here as an hon. Member of Parliament, you are held in very high esteem. But if you lose elections – I am talking from experience having lost one – people think that you are from the gutters and you belong there. They do not believe that you belong to the society. I am warning all hon. Members of Parliament who have just joined this Parliament; if you have not taken a loan to buy a property by now, you are lost. Take a loan and buy a property because that is the only investment you will come out of this place with. If you do not, then you are gone. Formally, Parliament used to be held in very high esteem, but for the last two to three Parliaments, somehow the society does not hold Parliament in such high esteem. Sometimes they equate an hon. Member of Parliament to a criminal. When you get out of this Parliament, you cannot access even a consultancy job. I used to be a university lecturer and when I was kicked out for five years, I wanted to become a consultant, but it was very difficult. Let us have this society established by providing funds for it. For example, we can have facilities like medical cover for former hon. Members of Parliament to continue and also a network of human resource bank for those former hon. Members of Parliament who performed very well in Parliament, for the welfare of this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should have that proposed amendment so that the society comprises of former and sitting hon. Members of Parliament so that they can interact, exchange ideas, improve our performance and prepare ourselves before we are kicked out. We do not choose to be kicked out, but a few choose to. We all believe that we will return and continue to do a lot of work. Last time when I was kicked out, I had done a lot of work in my constituency. I had helped to build 322 churches and delivered public address systems to 265 churches. I had also done a tarmac road of 40 kilometers long, but still I was kicked out. Of course, the one who took over did some more work. However, when you go out there nobody regards you as a human being; I am telling you, except maybe your immediate family members. I, therefore, want to support this Bill. Let us make amendments. I am happy to serve with hon. Keynan in the Commission. He looks at our welfare with a passion. He mobilises some of us who are old timers and we pursue your welfare through his leadership. I want to encourage you, hon. Keynan, to continue bringing these types of Bills. That is what we did when we brought Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to Kenya. With those few remarks, I support."
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