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    "id": 1266707,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Thuku Kwenya",
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    "content": "We also realised that there are some pensions that have been paid for a long time by the National Treasury to workers who retired during Africanisation in 1963, when there was a declaration that Africans should manage their affairs. Most of the workers who went back to their countries have been enjoying pension for quite a long time because it was a provision as at that time. The money was paid through an agent called Crown Agent and to-date, they are still being paid. If you calculate from 1963 to-date, we are talking about 60 years later. I would like to pause a question to the House to consider. If someone at that time was about 30 years old, 60 years later today, it means he is 90 years and above. These people are still enjoying taxpayers’ money through Crown Agent. When we brought this matter to the fore, the National Treasury came back to us with different figures stating that it is not Ksh150 million that we are paying, but Ksh42 million. We need to put an eye on these expenditures, which are of CFS in nature as provided for in the Constitution so that CFS is not abused. I want to thank the President because he has been firm on the fight against corruption. If we were to honestly interrogate this matter, we can see how much we are losing. Having said that, I wish to support this Report and state that we need to put some weight. Allow us, as Members, to ventilate the matters contained in reports like this one when they are tabled in the House even for purposes of the record because this a House of record."
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