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    "id": 1379668,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1379668/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kaguchia John",
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    "content": "To be fair to the people who are retiring, we must ensure that we have a proper and working pension system. We must improve on what we have today. Many people who are retiring have a problem going home because they are not sure that they are going to be taken care of. As a country, we must develop a very good system of taking care of our seniors because these people have served us with honour and dignity. We have stood on their shoulders. We have benefitted from them. We have drawn energy, experience, skill, information, and wisdom from them. We have received many services from them. I want to make it clear that we must also prepare a system to take care of people as they retire, that is, through a proper working pension system. This pension system must have the capacity to release their benefits without having them follow up or queue in offices for many hours or days. We must ensure this system is working. We also have another category of people appointed to certain acting positions in this country. They are appointed to these positions because we are preparing to hire another person to occupy their positions. We have seen people acting in positions for eternity. We have seen CEOs acting for a long time. Unfortunately, this does not work well for our governance. So long as you are acting in a position for long, you are easily manipulated, guided or over-guided by the people who have appointed you in that acting position. This happens because you are seeking an opportunity to be confirmed one day. Therefore, I highly support that we have an acting capacity for only six months, beyond which we must advertise that position to be filled or confirm the person acting in that capacity. As we amend the laws, I advocate that those acting in a position get an allowance that is almost equivalent to the pay of the person who sits in that position. We must calculate their salary. We need to know the salary of the position they are acting in, get the difference and pay that difference as an acting allowance so that they are not subjected to more services and work without pay. We have to be fair to Kenyans. I support this amendment and commend the Mover, Hon. Benjamin Mwangi Gathiru. He has proved that he can take care of people working for the Government in this country. I commend him for having thought about the young people, the pension system for retirees, and the issue of people acting for a long time in positions. Indeed, those who serve in acting positions should either be confirmed in those positions or paid acting allowance as per the law. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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