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    "id": 938456,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/938456/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka-Nithi CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Beatrice Nyaga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1051,
        "legal_name": "Beatrice Nkatha Nyaga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this important Bill, which was brought to the House by Hon. Mbadi. We have former Members of Parliament who served this country diligently and efficiently, but at the end of the day, they walked away without anything. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have public officers who are cleaners, clerks, cabinet secretaries and even former presidents of this country. They earn a pension. Then you wonder why it is not the case to former Members of Parliament who served this country with all their energies. We have seen them outside here and even in our counties. You will only sympathise with them. Some are not even able to feed themselves, leave alone their families. They are not even able to take care of their medical expenses. They had vehicles when they were in this House, but how do you maintain a car when you do not have anything at the end of the month? They end up riding bicycles and motorbikes. Some even walk on the streets. We have seen them. They need to be treated decently, so that they can have a life after this Parliament. I know some people are going to say that we have today added ourselves some pension of Kshs100,000, which is not true. We are not talking about the sitting Members of Parliament. We"
}