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    "id": 938363,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, EFP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Adan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Haji Yussuf",
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    "content": "On the other hand, I support my colleague, Hon. Wanyonyi, that the figure of Kshs100,000 is very low looking at today’s economy and the value of our shilling. He promised to propose an amendment that will increase it to Kshs200,000. I will be the first one to support it. It is not just the pension, but we also need to include a medical cover. The biggest problem that former parliamentarians have is getting medical cover. Many of them are old and have lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure or chronic diseases that require constant medication. Without a medical cover, that becomes a big problem. Even if you give them Kshs100,000 or the Kshs200,000 we are suggesting, without a small medical cover, that money will go to their medicine for the first few days of the month and thereafter, they remain the same. My colleagues have already said that as soon as we go out of this House this afternoon, the Press will talk of Members of Parliament increasing their pension by Kshs100,000. We want to tell the Press very categorically that we are talking of the past. We are not talking of the present Members of Parliament. The present Members of Parliament are already contributing to their pension. Let the Press hear this. We are contributing to our pension. Hence, when we leave, we know we will get a pension because we have been contributing the entire time we have been here. What we are talking about is the past. It is the old men and women who are out in the field and were once honourable Members. When we were young and in school, they were the role models in the community. Today, nobody wants to face them. With those few remarks, this is very timely. I support the Bill."
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