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    "id": 812725,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to talk about the issues of corruption. I know some of us will run for governorship. My good friend from Narok County and many others will run for the governor seat. Sen. Sakaja is smiling; he might not be running for governor, but for president in future. If we know that you are a leader, but unfortunately, you do not get re-elected, you and your family must be comfortable. Recently the former Prime Minister was in India to take a message of goodwill from President Uhuru Kenyatta. It will be good to facilitate such leaders. Even in our county governments we would like to see serving governors assigning former governors, senators and others to represent them in various fora or level of administration. We need to facilitate and ensure that the human resources that we give them are people who can assist in management and execution of many other aspects. Madam Temporary Speaker, in as much as I congratulate my brother, let us include the former councillors and any former leader. They also even need medical cover. The other day I was invitedto do a fundraiser for a former Member of Parliament, I do not want to say where, his family could not even raise Kshs500,000 for hospital bill. He could not afford it after losing the seat. There is no medical cover. We should include medical insurance for the former leaders because they are still our leaders and need to be treated with dignity. We do not want to create hopeless leadership such that when somebody is elected, he knows that after losing the seat, he cannot have hope. He cannot even be hired despite the fact that he is held in high regard. We do not want to see our leadership being ridiculed that: “Do you know this person? He was a former Senator or governor. Look at him now; he cannot even afford a bicycle.” Madam Temporary Speaker, it even reaches a point where their spouses run away because they no longer provide. I know there are people who increase the number of spouses when they get elected. However, we know the first family remains with him, but others take off. We need to protect them so that “team mafisi ” will not take advantage of the desperation of former leaders. Fourthly, apart from medical insurance and human resource, the other aspect is the issue of dignity. Let us not expose our leadership. I have an opinion on the issue of whether you should get retirement benefits either as the Deputy President or designated state officer. In future if they want to benefit from this, they should become politically The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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