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    "id": 938408,
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    "speaker_name": "Lari, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jonah Mwangi",
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        "legal_name": "Jonah Mburu Mwangi",
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    "content": "the streets that they made the law for us and nothing got into their pockets. The same thing goes for former Members of Parliament. These people are suffering. These people have no healthcare. These people have no food on the table. We need to give them some pension, so that they can have better lives as they age. They can then age gracefully and we can appreciate that they did some good work for this nation. Most of the former Members of Parliament did not retire willingly. Most of them were chased out of Parliament by force, maybe by the younger generation like us. It is not that you retire willingly. That is why you would wish to take more than 10 years in this Parliament, but circumstances do not allow sometimes. Because you contributed so much to this nation, you need to be taken care of by the same nation. It is the laws they made that have made our country to reach where it is today. You have to be treated the same way by the same country, so that before you escape to the next world, you can have a better life than you do today. Also, we know that once a teacher, always a teacher. Former Members of Parliament wake up politics, sleep politics, stand politics and also do politics of serving the people. They are always serving the people at their localities. They will serve the people even with their last coin. We can only do better if we gave them something for pension, so that they can be well taken care of. As we talk about former Members of Parliament, there are those who served for one term of five years. As I have said, they did not leave that job willingly. They need to be considered in the same bracket. As we give pension to former Members, those who served for one term should also be given pension even if they served for one term or half a term. As long as you served in Parliament, you have to be given some pension. That should be enough to make them have something to eat. We should also remember that former Members of Parliament lived a very busy life in this House. No one had any time to even do a side hustle or business. When you live a very busy life serving people, you find that by the time you retire, you have nothing to fall back to. That is why I support this Bill. They must be given pension. I am also looking forward to the Bill on councillors that will come from the Senate and the one on MCAs, because they have also been serving the country. They need to get pension. They are aging in a very poor way in the villages. Most of them have no food. They cannot even go to hospital. Recently, I visited a former councillor, and I was touched by his seats, which are worn out because he bought them when he was a councillor in Kiambu County Council. Today, he cannot even afford to buy seats for his house. It is reasonable enough to consider them when the Bill gets to this House. With those few remarks, I support."
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