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    "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. Speaker, being an MP has been criminalised in this country. Once you become an MP, even if you are very educated and a professional in an area, no one would believe that you have brains. You hardly see former MPs getting jobs. In fact, from the time we passed the new Constitution, we decided to criminalise the work of MPs. If you look at the BiIl that created the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), you will find that one of the disqualifications for being a member of CRA is having served as an MP, even though CRA membership is purely political. It is political parties which nominate members to CRA but, again, you find a provision within the law that says you must stay out of Parliament for at least five years before you can be a commissioner with the CRA. You ask yourself what happens to one who becomes an MP! Do we lose our intellectual capacity or do we become so criminalised that we have to serve some probation period out of Parliament to be inducted or reintroduced back to the society? We have been making mistakes. Former MPs and current MPs are Kenyans. The CVs of some current MPs are very impressive. We now have a Parliament that is intellectually endowed. Once you get into Parliament, the next thing is that you become a former MP. We are all candidates for being former MPs. The only thing we do not know is when. Some of us, like myself, are nearing that time very dangerously. Others are also following. For those who will be here for a while, we thank God and pray for you to continue being here so that you can continue to deliver services to the people. However, those of us who will walk out should not become a laughing stock to be ridiculed."
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