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    "id": 1013581,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabondo Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Eve Obara",
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        "legal_name": "Eve Akinyi Obara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to also support the Bill. It is reinforcing regulations that are already in place. In the public service today, the retirement age is 60. This has been the case for about 15 years now. People retire at 60 years of age. There is nothing new in this. The retirement age is 60. The problem could be the enforcement of this regulation. I say without fear or contradiction that probably only 85 per cent of public servants have complied with this regulation. Probably only 10 or 15 per cent have not. This could be abuse. I would call it an abuse of office because they know the retirement age is 60. Secondly, the CEOs they were talking about have very clear regulations on how to exit. They exit on a three-year term, renewable after three years, or renewable after five years. It is very clear. That is before you are 60 years old. Once you are 60 years old, you have to exit. Again, there is no crisis in that area. You have seen in areas where boards are tempted to extend beyond the retirement age of 60, they were stopped by the courts. A case in point is the Kenya Power and Lighting Company. The courts overturned that and the CEO had to go home. We must distinguish between the staff and the board. The staff have a retirement age of 60. The retirement age of members of a board can go beyond 60. Boards are not staff. They are not employees earning the benefits of the staff. They are not taking jobs that the youth should be doing. We have to be very clear on what we are talking about. When we talk about serving in an acting capacity, there are different types of acting that were raised by the Leader of the Majority Party. You act…"
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