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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I can see that time is not on our side, but I will try to be brief. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a nexus between people holding on to power and the lack of retirement benefits in Africa. You cannot spend a whole lifetime serving people, just for you to be treated like a dog – for lack of a better word – out there. We see this every day in the corridors of this Parliament, where former legislators have gone out of their way to serve this country but have nothing to show for it. They have a big name, they are respected and yet the only place that they can go to is this Parliament, because they are understood here. Even when they come here, most of us see them as a bother because they will ask you for Kshs2,000 so that they can live some kind of life. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I came here in 2013, I was shocked to see people I used to read about in the newspapers, looking like paupers. They looked as if they slept in the suits they were wearing. There was an initiative by Hon. Adan Keynan to help former parliamentarians when he presented a Bill on the Parliamentary Society of Kenya. I do not know what happened to this effort. At some point, we allocated Kshs10 billion to cater for this problem, but I actually do not know what happened. 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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