{"id":506786,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/506786/?format=json","text_counter":139,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Farah","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2231,"legal_name":"Abdulaziz Ali Farah","slug":"abdulaziz-ali-farah"},"content":"Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I think hon. Members are mixing some issues and we need to clarify this. There is a pension that you are entitled to as a former employee of the Government, and there are benefits that this Bill is really targeting. What we want to deny are benefits that will accrue to these members, and not the normal pension. For example, Raila Odinga might earn some pension because he was a Minister for several years, or he was an engineer somewhere in a department of the Government. We are not curtailing that. We are curtailing the benefits that accrue to a retired President like security guards, motor vehicles and that kind of thing. What we are saying is that we do not want those benefits to be used in political rallies, funerals et cetera."}