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    "id": 909306,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/909306/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "If you allow me, I would like to talk about the plight of former Members of Parliament in one or two minutes. The case of the late Hon. Oduya Oprong is a classic example of how this country treats former Members of Parliament. Once you leave office, you live a pathetic life. Following that reasoning and together with the plight of many other former Members of Parliament, some of whom get as little as Kshs3,000 per month in the form of pension, I drafted a Bill which is taking too long. I am so worried about the processing of Bills, especially the pre- publication scrutiny. Once the Bill goes through the Budget and Appropriations Committee, it will go to the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. After the First Reading, the same Bill will go to the same Committee. This process needs to be re-looked into. Those of us who are in the Committee in charge of our Standing Orders, I do not see the rationale of the same Committee doing the pre-publication scrutiny and looking at the Bill after the First Reading. I hope the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, and I am sure the Chair, Hon. Limo, is around, will expedite that Bill which is supposed to cushion the former Members of Parliament. Hon. Otieno Mak’Onyango was very eloquent in this Parliament but he cannot even afford Kshs10,000 monthly to meet his medication. Something needs to be done. These Members of Parliament are dying in numbers. They are now 153. They were more than 500 a few years ago."
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