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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okenyuri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I also want to support this Report by the watchdog Committee led by the Senator of Vihiga County, Sen. Osotsi. I have been going through various surveys. One of the damning surveys I came across was by an international financial service provider that rated retirees in Kenya as one of the poorest globally. In a country that is trying to encourage savings and increasing contributions in terms of the NSSF, this is something that we seriously need to think about not just in counties. I would say, it is gross irresponsibility and unsound to deduct money from someone and then not remit it to the pension fund organizations. When you look at the tales of many retirees in this country, the moment you retire and go home, most of the issues you are dealing with are either burying your colleagues, paying school fees and most of them are paying school fees for dependents who are young people between 20 and 25 years. When you carefully scrutinize that situation, most retirees are forced to go back to work. They are going back to work, not in the government but doing odd jobs to make more money because they have nothing and these county governments are not paying them their pension dues. I would say at times it is deliberate because the county chiefs are prioritizing projects which they are making money from. That is why it is very easy for a county government to launch a new project but dillydally in remitting money that is meant for people who have been their loyal workers."
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