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    "id": 1144713,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1144713/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 232,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, EFP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Adan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13420,
        "legal_name": "Adan Haji Yussuf",
        "slug": "adan-haji-yussuf-2"
    },
    "content": "The centralisation of pension – that every pensioner must come to Nairobi to look for his or her pension – is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. Why can the Government not decentralise the pension processing points? Even if payment is ultimately done in Nairobi, at least pension processing points need to be decentralised to as down as the sub-county levels. A pensioner should be able to process all her papers at the sub-county pension office so that by the time it is sent to Nairobi it is only a matter of payment. This is what is supposed to be done. The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) does this at least to the regional level. Why can the retirement pension scheme not do the same? Some people even fear to work until retirement age because they know they will suffer upon retirement for lack of pension. Some leave their jobs and look for alternative livelihoods before they attain retirement age. My recommendation is that pension must be paid within three months. Within those three months, pensioners must be paid their full salaries until they receive their pension in their accounts. How else do you expect a pensioner to survive? The only way to be fair to them is to pay them full salaries until their pensions are paid. What happens now is that salary is stopped while no pension is forthcoming. Therefore, the person suffers throughout. Corruption is another problem. Someone may have been a teacher for 30 years. Having retired, he comes to look for his pension in Nairobi and he suffers expenses like hotel bills and transport charges."
}