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    "id": 938297,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
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    "content": "As I support this Bill, the salaries of the elder brothers whom I have associated with who were Members of Parliament was less than Kshs5,000. For those who became Members of Parliament in 1974, their income was Kshs2,000. When they came back in 1988 to serve their second terms, their salary was only Kshs5,000. All the family members and other people whom they served in the society who came to Nairobi for further education were housed in their respective houses. They could not afford rent of their rental houses. As Members of Parliament today, we have a mortgage scheme which we can use to buy a house. They did not have it those days. They took African Retail Traders (ART) loans to buy household goods to furnish their houses. Many of you may not understand this. You could give them your payslip and get household goods like sofa sets, refrigerators and televisions. Those are the issues which were there in those days. Those Members of Parliament could not afford those things. What do you expect when they leave the House? When they leave the House and they are still in the midst of the society, they cannot meet their obligations. When they were Members of Parliament, they could not afford them because their income those days was so little that they could not afford paying school fees for their children."
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