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    "id": 1121797,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "that issue. What happens if in two years to the time of getting pension, a person is retired from employment? Why should that person suffer? We should look at it. When it comes to the Committee of the whole House, we can have an amendment. I am sure Hon. Ngeno is good in that aspect and I will be sharing this with him. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should also look at this: Some people are very young in this Parliament. They came at the age of 28 years but the mother Act says that you can only access pension at the age of 45 years. What are we trying to imply? We should look at it when that time comes but I want appreciate Hon. Didmus. This amendment Bill has come with very many goodies. First, the pensioners who have retired from the service will now be able to get their pension within 90 days. This is a good thing. Why are we telling people whom we have been paying that we do not have their files? Which files are we looking for? Why have we been paying them? We must push the pension scheme or the National Treasury to pay these people on time and the 90 days being proposed is good enough. As Africans, we would want to make laws that enable us to move from one level to another. It is clear that this person has retired, he is due to be paid and he has been contributing to this scheme. Hon. Didmus, it is now clear that petitioners should be paid within 90 days. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill will now awaken the pension schemes. They are on a slumber bed. They will now be able to wake up and walk the automated way. They must embrace Information Technology (IT). An automated pension scheme will now link up the National Treasury Pension Department with pension departments of other Government entities in order to increase efficiency in pension processing. Today, we are in the technology driven world and we can no longer afford to work with the black books and the black recording books. Once this Bill is enacted, the pressure of paying pensioners within 90 days will automatically make these pension schemes to embrace IT. Another advantage I am reading in this Bill is that the National Treasury shall have to review the number of documentations needed for the processing of pension with a view of making the process easier. It is now not important to start looking at what happened when. When you were receiving this pensioner’s money, why did you not ask for information? It is important that the National Treasury comes up with a leaner way of reviewing what a pensioner needs in terms of the documentation process. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another advantage which emanates from this Bill is that the National Treasury shall now build the capacity of pension departments in public entities in order to enhance efficiency in processing pension for their employees. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have just passed Hon. Gideon Keter’s Bill which looks at enabling our young graduates to be employed. It is important that the National Treasury now builds capacity, both human and technological. Once this Bill is enacted, the human capacity will be needed to enhance and move faster in terms of paying pension to the pensioners. This Bill is good and it is timely. I, therefore, support. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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