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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, I had intended to give hon. Chepkong’a an opportunity, but I also need to hear the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee. As you address me, I have always said that it is fair for Members to read Bills carefully. Hon. John Mbadi, the long title of your Bill reads as follows: “An Act of Parliament to provide for the granting of pension and other retirement benefits to persons who hold the offices of the Deputy President and holders of Designated State Offices upon their ceasing to hold the offices as such, to provide, for transitional purposes, for the benefits to accrue to persons who have served as Prime Minister, Vice-President and Deputy Prime Minister; and for connected purposes”. Unless that has been changed, as far as I am concerned it is the long title of the Bill I am holding. However, when you go to the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons, this Bill looks small but I think it needs to be carefully looked at by those of you who purported to have looked at it. Allow me to use the word “purported” because this is the first paragraph of the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons. The principal object of this Bill is to make provision for benefits which are to be provided to holders of the Office of Deputy President and Designated State Offices upon their retirement. Similarly, the Bill makes provision for benefits to be paid to persons who have retired as Prime Minister and Vice-President. The long title includes a Deputy Prime Minister but in the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons, it has been omitted. Yes. You want to tell me that the Budget and Appropriations Committee looked through it carefully and with a tooth comb - I do not 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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