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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to comment on the two Statements that have been brought forward to the House by the Senator of Taita-Taveta. The first one is about the delayed payment of pensions to the retired employees of the Kenya Railways Corporation. As a country, I keep wondering why we demean our senior citizens. If it is not about non-payment of pension to teachers, then we have non-payment of pensions to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) employees and other sectors. Mr. Speaker, Sir, all of us are growing older and we will need some upkeep from the money that has been invested during our working years. It is painful that people who are now older do not have the energy to work and cannot go looking for income from elsewhere because of their age but those are the people who, as a country, we deny them their rightful payment. When some of us were growing up, the Kenya Railways Corporation used to be one of the places that most of us aspired to work at. The people who worked for the Kenya Railways Corporation used to live well because houses were built for them. While they worked, I guess their families believed that their upkeep would continue through the investment that they had made. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this matter should be looked into. As Sen. Mwaruma has said, it also pains me that it is an issue that has been before the House even in the previous Parliament. With your guidance, we want this matter to be dealt with once and for all. Before I sit, let me also add my voice to the Statement about the county boundary outline between Taita-Taveta and its three neighbours. Mr. Speaker, Sir, all I wanted to put before you is that, as the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations discuss this issue, I pray that the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources is also brought on board. I am saying this because boundaries are issues of survey. Therefore, if there are issues to do with land, then the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources should be brought in to deal with issues of boundaries once and for all."
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