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    "id": 938265,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/938265/?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": "Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi is shouting loudly. I know I am not supposed to have heard him but he is saying he sponsored the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Bill with his own money. By the way, in those days, there was no CDF. So, MPs, with their meagre resources, doubled as CDF. One may ask why July 1984 to 2001? The explanation is that before 1984, the Parliamentary Pensions Act was not in existence. So, you cannot amend an Act of Parliament to bring MPs to benefit when the law was not even in place. That is why ex-gratia payment was made to MPs who served before 1984. After 2002, MPs’ salaries were enhanced and so the calculation on pension has gone up. Before 2001, MPs were earning very little amounts of money hence, the pension they are getting is meagre. In fact, once you become an MP, you are a leader and people respect you. When you get out of office, you turn from a leader to a beggar and it is frustrating and an embarrassment to society. It is something that, as leaders, we need to look into."
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