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    "id": 1381384,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Beth Syengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this chance to add my voice into this Report. First, I appreciate the CPISFC for the good work they have done in collecting the input from the affected people and Kenyans at large. It is inhuman for the governors and any institution not to pay workers their pensions. It is painful when people have invested time and resources into working and serving an institution, then not get their benefits when they leave. Many of them leave employment when tired and need to get their benefits. Secondly, some of them may not even have had time to have families when they were working. When they retire is maybe when they get young wives to take care of them. Then when they are not paid their benefits, they suffer because they want to treat these young women in their lives and give them the best lives they can afford. They get frustrated when they are not paid. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is important to note that retirees at home also contribute in building the nation. They need to get their benefits so that when called in these social gatherings and in family meetings, they can contribute at ease because they have their benefits and money. That helps them in keeping their social status so that they do not feel neglected, become social misfits and not accepted because they cannot contribute or participate in what the community is doing. We must come up as a House with a clear way forward on how to enforce the payment of pensions of those who have served the nation because they require support when they retire. Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity to recognise that those who do not get their benefits go through psychological torture. They need to be helped by getting them their benefits with their pension being paid in good time. They should not wait for long. Many die without enjoying the fruits of their hard work."
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