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    "id": 853094,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/853094/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, before I became a Member of Parliament, I served in the City Council as a councillor. There was a pension scheme there called Laptrust Fund which I was a member. That scheme was optional. You were free to join or not join. Some of us who went there joined immediately. When I was leaving that place, I saw its benefit. Retirement benefits should be something that we should support. When we are legislating, we are trying to say that during your time when you are contributing to the development of this country at your prime age, you contribute to the scheme. When you retire, your lifestyle should not change. You should go into retirement and still have something that can keep you living almost the same lifestyle that you were living before. That is why we have this kind of Bill. We should all support it because we want people who have made contributions to the development of this country not to retire in poverty. We have seen even former Members of Parliament who come outside here and they look so bad. We would like to see people retire into a good life but should not go to die. We do not want people to retire and die immediately."
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