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    "id": 938315,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Waluke",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for also giving me a chance to speak on this Motion. It is important for us, as a House, to note that former MPs are really suffering. We have witnessed, seen and met them out there. We needed to pass this Bill like yesterday. Leadership comes and goes, but the country remains. Members of Parliament also come and go, but this House will remain. This Bill is very important to all of us, not only for the former MPs, but for all of us, even those who are sitting MPs. It has been long. We failed to pass it during the 11th Parliament when you and I were here. It came late. Otherwise, we would have passed it because it affects us. Life out there is very difficult. Former honourable Members are always called when anything is in the villages they come from. They are always called for harambees, to participate in the development of the nation, yet they have nothing. They just struggle. Some of them sell a goat to take money to harambees. So, it is important and urgent that we pass this Bill so that we accommodate our former colleagues. We are not necessarily doing this because we are also going there tomorrow. We know we are, but before we leave, we must make sure that we pass this Bill for the future of other Members who will also be called “former Members of Parliament”. With those few remarks, I support this Bill."
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