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    "id": 1028052,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka",
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        "legal_name": "Boniface Mutinda Kabaka",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Petition by my friend, the Senator for Nyandarua County, Sen. Mwangi. He is a very experienced Senator having served both in the National Assembly and the Senate for some time. I do not want to repeat what has been said. That would be tautological. I only need to state that this issue of refugees in their own country is very touchy. It is not different from the international refugees who are suffering refugee camps. However, of necessity, the issue that I need to state is this land. It is that issue, which has been pinpointed by several Senators who spoke before me. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is high time that the other agencies of Government were involved to investigate who took what or which land. Money is not everything here. Some people might have been compensated in monetary terms but others are sentimentally attached to their land because that is the land they know and where they were born. The second issue touches on the Kenya Railways Pensioners’ Retirement Benefits Scheme. It is very emotive. For those who do not know, I worked for Kenya Railways for nine years. It is a very big let down to the pioneers of East African Railways then Kenya Railways. They worked hard for these institutions and even other related parasails like the defunct Kenya Post and Telecommunication Corporation (KPTC), which demerged, to three agencies. The mismanagement of these funds, which totals to billions of Kenyan Shillings is very sad. I think there is collusion between those in management and the actuarial bodies that run the affairs of the scheme today. Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, as I conclude, I would like to say that heads must roll because corruption in this country is too much. It is important that people revisited their moral being. I support."
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