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    "id": 938365,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/938365/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to delve into this matter on the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Bill. I rise to support it. The absurdity of this House is that at one particular time, the inevitability of becoming a former Member of Parliament is so well-pronounced - dead or alive - that we just have to look at the welfare of those who already have the tag of “former Member of Parliament”. All of us here are heading there. Therefore, despite serving this nation with great dedication, we have continued to see some Members of Parliament languishing in abject poverty. Just as my colleagues have said, most of them are not even in a position to afford aspirin when they have a headache just because the only mistake they made was to become Members of Parliament. That cannot be acceptable. Many have died quite miserably. It is very strange that each time a former Member of Parliament passes on, you have to go deep into the pages of our local dailies and just one paragraph is apportioned to their deaths. Firstly, it becomes very difficult to even know that we have lost a former colleague. Even if you have the tenacity to go through the newspaper and find it deep down there, the former accolades that they enjoyed while alive all of a sudden diminish and are vanquished into oblivion."
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