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    "id": 1278973,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1278973/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwatate, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Shake",
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    "content": "THAT, the provision of retirement benefits to public officers is intended to ensure a smooth transition from active service with employment income to retirement with a certain level of replacement income. This is so that the standard of living for public officers does not change drastically in old age; THAT, the Pensions Act (Cap.189) makes provisions for granting and regulating the payment of pensions, gratuities and other allowances in respect of the public service for officers under the Government of Kenya; THAT, despite the foregoing provisions, there are retired teachers in the Republic of Kenya who served under the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) who have never been paid their retirement dues and pension; THAT, in Mwatate Constituency just like other constituencies in the Republic of Kenya, the said retired teachers served in different schools and retired in different years; THAT, in Mwatate Constituency, some of the retired teachers have neither been communicated to by their employer, Teachers Service Commission up to date nor paid their monthly pension and/or the lumpsum for the services they offered during their years of service; THAT, the continued non-payment of retirement benefits and pensions have subjected teachers to live in a deplorable state; THAT, the non-paid teachers of Mwatate Constituency retired from the period ranging from 2011 and 2022 and some of them are now suffering ailments associated with old age hence causing them unbearable financial needs; THAT, the issues in respect of which this Petition is raised are not pending before any court of law or any constitutional or legal body. Therefore, your humble Petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Public Petitions Committee– 1. Engages the Teachers Service Commission to establish the circumstances that have occasioned the delayed payment of retirement benefits of the retired teachers in Mwatate Constituency and the entire country. 2. Engages the TSC to provide data and statistics of all unpaid retired teachers in the entire country and indicate when they will pay all the retired dues of the said teachers and makes any other recommendation or action it will deem fit in addressing the plight of the petitioners. And your Petitioner will ever pray."
}