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    "id": 1278995,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1278995/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on the two petitions. By coincidence, both of them touch on education. I want to make the following comments to the Committee. The biggest problem that we, as Members of Parliament, encounter here is to help these retirees in chasing their pensions in TSC and the National Treasury. We spend a lot of time helping them. So, we feel it. I thank the Hon. Member who brought this Petition. My advice to the Public Petitions Committee is to propose a law that says that if a teacher retires, rather than going to wait for pension, he is paid half of it. Then, TSC can wean him off to pension. That is one possibility I urge the Committee to look at. Secondly, we can make a law making it mandatory for the TSC and the National Treasury to pay a teacher his dues within six months after he retires. If they do not do it, then we recommend some punishment, so that they can fast-track it. Many teachers from my place and your place die before receiving this pension. So, we need to think about something radical. Finally, we need to review lumping petitions in one Committee. If this Petition was committed to the Departmental Committee on Education, we would have even engaged TSC and National Treasury early enough, without waiting too much until when they appear before them. Otherwise, we need to think of the radical move or approach that I have proposed. Maybe, we will make a law and make it punishable, if they do not pay teachers within six months. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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