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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion and say how important it is. For those who have come when there is pension, it important to know that the 8th Parliament going backwards, Members went home with zero money in their pockets. If you lost an election, it meant getting yourself into abject poverty. I honour the work of Hon. Oloo Aringo who, during the 8th Parliament saw it fit to create the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and enhance the salaries of MPs, which were then very low. More importantly, the PSC created a pension fund for MPs. My late father was an MP of this House in the 1970s and early 1980s. He must have been here with Hon. Kabeere M’Mbijiwe, among others. The experiences of the families of Members who left this House were miserable. Those Members served diligently at that time. They earned very little and they went home with no pension at all, and the families suffered. The amazing thing about being an MP is that you also deal with very merciless public that waits to see you go home and they start saying: “Even his suit is oversize”. It does not matter how hard you work, they will say that your shoes are torn and you cannot even afford tyres for your car. That applies to the young MPs, whom I always tell that once they come here as young MPs, they become unemployable. Going forward, nobody will need you in their offices. They think you cannot sit in an office from 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Therefore, it is important that we have a pension. We must support the 160 Members who have left us because that is the reality. 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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