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    "content": "factors but by other social factors. You cannot pre-determine the future based on the events that we have. It is not like the United Kingdom (UK) or any other place. Even in the UK, we still have thugs and crooks like the ones who caused the problem in the banking industry, share markets and collapsed the industry. You cannot pre-determine the future in Kenya which is under three months. We are extending that generosity of the future to three months and then recommending that we have these pensioners have their money. Yesterday, I said here that when President Kim - God rest him in eternal peace - was denied a loan by the World Bank he went on to these pensioners fund in Singapore. You know the way the World Bank is; those people in finance know it. When the bridge is halfway over the ocean, they say there is no money. It is supposed to be a monster and you cannot do anything about it just like we saw with most projects here. They used those funds to complete the bridge which turned the economy around. We should allow further amendments so that instead of going to borrow from these very high-headed people, we can borrow from within and cause development. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am seconding this Motion because I know right there and across the country, there are pensioners who cannot even afford the cost of batteries for an FM radio today, yet these organizations are holding millions of their monies right now. I know that they are camped somewhere listening to their radios and they are hearing us. This honourable House should be persuaded to pass this Motion. The Committee on Implementation, which is a product of the Tenth Parliament, should move fast and make sure that once we pass this Motion, it is implemented immediately. It is not justifiable for us to look at those old men dying, when we have their money. My father passed on two years ago. The process of having his pension processed, ever since he worked for Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC), had not been completed at the time he was 90 years. It is very complicated. You have no bus fare, you have no energy, your health is failing and yet, the Government sits there and puts some more and more handicaps for you to access your money. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am seconding this Motion believing that this Government, at the end of this month, will call all those pensioners and give them good news. The good news should be that the money which is available now, even if it is Kshs10,000, can still be useful if they can invest it the same way as the lady who was described by Royal Media Radio Citizen. I beg to second."
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