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    "id": 1126880,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I sit in the PAC and the issue of pension to people living outside this country is becoming an audit query every year. This is because tracing the beneficiaries or the dependants is not easy. The amount being paid as pension is so negligible to the extent that the cost of administering the Fund far much outweighs any charge on the Consolidated Fund. So, it has always been an agreement all along that as we try to put in place a more robust pension management scheme, the pension schemes that do not make economic sense should be wound up or an alternative way is found to ensure that we proceed. I want to join my colleagues to note that there must be some kind of orderly transition. As we repeal, the beneficiaries, who still benefit by virtue of having served this country in various capacities before Independence, do not get denied what is due to them. We hope that there could be a provision in the Bill to provide for a transition period where everybody is able to get their funds. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is wrong for any Member to insinuate that this particular Bill was favouring a certain category of Kenyans. It was not. It is an historical matter that needs to be put into proper perspective so that all of us understand the genesis of the Bill and why it is being repealed."
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