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"content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance. I take this opportunity to thank the Member for Embakasi Central, Hon. Mejjadonk, for coming up with this Bill. Firstly, I want to talk about effectiveness. How effective are you after the age of 55? Our life is categorized in a way that you can tell how effective you are. During childhood, one to ten years, you know how effective you are. From 10 to 20 years, you realise who you are. After that, career establishment picks up and an assurance at 30 to 40 years. From 50 to 60 years, you start planning for your retirement. After that, the bonus years check in. When you claim that you still want to offer your services effectively after the age of 60, we really do not understand what you are talking about. Hon. Temporary Speaker, at the age of 60, you should have already planned for your life after employment. When you walk into public institutions, you realise how old the technologies there are. New technologies are coming in, but some public servants do not understand them. At times, you walk into an office and find computers that have never been switched on. And if they have been switched on, only one application has been used. Those computers are just collecting dust because there is no one with the skills to operate them. Secondly, I want to talk about planning for retirement. If you know you are not going to retire, you will not plan for anything. You will just continue working knowing very well that you have a job. We have seen civil servants who retire and end up in abject poverty. This is because they never planned because they knew that their job is safe with their special skills, and that they will be recalled to the service even after the age of 60. What is this special skill that you have that this new generation and the young people out here cannot learn? It is so shocking that you can walk into an institution and you are told that the service cannot be given because an individual is not present. Our young people in Nairobi and other major cities have degrees and similar skills, but because someone does not want to retire, they have remained unemployed. It is time we re- look at the retirement age as proposed in this Bill by the Member of Parliament for Embakasi Central. A fool at 40 years is a fool forever. If you did not plan anything before the age of 40, there is nothing else you can plan thereafter. We have seen a few people create something after the age of 40, and we know them. There is nothing new you would give us after the age of 50. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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