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    "id": 832910,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/832910/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "These councillors are entitled to payment. To me, the foundation of democracy lies with the councillors and now the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs). They are the bedrock of our democratic system. The problems being faced by these ex- councillors is the problem that was also being faced by Members of Parliament (MPs). However, through the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), amendments were moved by former MP Peter Oloo-Aringo which allowed us to look after ourselves to an extent of being pensionable. We also to some extent looked after at the former MPs who were not able to get into the bracket of pensions. They also paid some amount of money, but we completely forgot former councillors. That is why the justification for this payment is so obvious that I would not want to belabour that they be paid. We should be asking ourselves why it has taken almost three years since these recommendations were made for the payments to be effected."
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