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    "id": 937368,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "We want to ensure that those who serve in public offices that are demanding and honourable get handsome pensions. People see them as their representatives; whom they can look up to and through whom they can get their concerns, including legislation, addressed. It is important that we come up with clear legislation and provisions that will address their welfare. We should do so. As indicated, it is also important that the manner in which we seek to address the matter of the pensions of the parliamentarians is informed in a very clear way by the kinds of clear definitions like we see even in other jurisdictions or countries. We see that it is clearly indicated that not only those who we are speaking to in terms of who will be beneficiaries, but also clearly indicating that it will only be those Members that served for more than one term who will qualify. However, I would like to also say that us, as MPs of the 12 Parliament, and because we are aware there are ways in which some of the former Members’ lives are challenged not only because of lack of financial resources but also because there is a sense in which a lot of the very basic infrastructural arrangements, in particular when we talk about health… In my County of Siaya, we now know that we have devolved health and we have seen the kind of turmoil and challenges that have really been sort of defining the health sector getting to the point where even the very respected seem to have a challenge. I think it will be important that we ensure that we can have a pension that will enable former MPs to have a dignified life. But it is also extremely important that to the extent that we can both from the national level as Members of the National Assembly but also from the county level, we ensure that we make provisions for all the citizens and we look in particular at health provisions and availability of drugs and the manner in which all members, particularly as they get older or those who are young like children or women and persons with disabilities, are taken care of. If we were to make sure that we will, to a large extent, continue to review policies and provisions and if we were to ensure that we would have water and other very necessary facilities available, then those MPs would have a dignified life. With this, I support."
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