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    "id": 1011260,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Bill. I want to congratulate Hon. Gathiru, who presented the Bill to our Committee, and we went through it thoroughly. I support the Bill because we must have a future for our generations. At a time when jobs are scarce, we must respect the retirement age. As we do so, I want to urge the Government to mentor the youth because there are those who are working in various Government departments, but they are not mentored and when they are supposed to take up those positions, they lack the necessary skills. In most foreign countries, retiring officers are given a stipend after retirement to act as mentors to youths in various departments. This has built the human capacity in those countries. It is, therefore, important that our retiring officers are not just thrown out. They are people who have built skills over time and are experienced. We need to have a fund to engage those people so that, by the time they are aged, we get as much as we can from them, so that we do not have shortage of human resource in this country. It is a small stipend that will go to them, encourage them and help them to live better lives as opposed to when we tell them to go home with all the knowledge that they have acquired. For the youth in this country, the advice from some of us is this: While you are working, take interest in engaging the elderly employees in your departments so that they are encouraged to impart on you some of the skills that they have acquired over time. You will find that while they are working, our youth are not interested in engaging their aged workmates. They assume in one way or the other that they know everything, whereas it is a fact that acquired knowledge and skills are not collected from nowhere. I, therefore, encourage them, as we advocate for them to get more jobs and have people retiring to go home, to take interest in engaging the elderly as much as they can. The elderly will feel encouraged to engage and impart on them the necessary skills. I support."
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