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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "Thank you so much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I will go directly because of time. I appreciate my colleagues from the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee (CPIC) which is new. We are very happy led by our Hon. Chairperson, Sen. Osotsi, for ensuring we table this Report. Mr. Temporary Speaker, you can see the Members of CPIC are here. This is a matter that has affected our employees in different counties. This is a matter that each Member of CPIC has been very passionate about, and it extends to other Senators in the different counties that they come from. This is because there has been a big thorn on the issue of pending, unpaid and unremitted pension. As you know very well, the reason we have pensions is to ensure our people after retirement can get their benefits so that they can sustain their cost of living. However, on our impactment, at this point, I want to appreciate all the stakeholders that were able to come aboard led by the Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning, LAPTRUST, LAPFUND, the Kenya County Government Workers Union (KCGWU), the Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA), Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the Real-Time Gross Settlement (RGTS). They appeared before the Committee to deliberate on the thorny issue of unremitted pensions. We looked at what has also caused this delay. Some of the factors ranged from one of the issues that the Chairperson has pointed out on untimely disbursements of the funds to the counties. The other thorny issue that goes way back before even some of us were born was that of the transfer of functions from the defunct local authorities. It also carried these debts during the transition to the devolved governments in 2013 which amount to about Kshs.9 billion. It ranges from Kshs5 billion from Local Authorities Pension (LAPTRUST), Kshs3.8 billion from the LAPFund, and Kshs1 billion from National Social Security Fund (NSSF). To date there are non-remitted funds in these different institutions."
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