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    "id": 1384685,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Liza Chelule",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I rise to request for a Statement on delayed payment of pension to pensioners of the defunct Pyrethrum Board of Kenya. Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 44(2)(c), I wish to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Social Protection, regarding the agonising delay by the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK) (now known as the Pyrethrum Processing Company of Kenya (PPCK)) to settle pension dues of its pensioners. Hon. Speaker, in 1991, the PBK established a Staff Superannuation Benefits Scheme from which its employees would enjoy full benefits upon retirement. Consequently, the Board’s former employees committed 5 per cent of their salary towards the Scheme as per the regulations. However, from 2012, the scheme ran into financial challenges which resulted in liquidation and subsequent assumption of its functions by the PPCK. Since then, retired employees of the PBK have never received their pension dues. Hon. Speaker, in an effort to offset the pensioners’ dues, in 2022 the PPCK Board sought authorisation from the National Treasury for their payments, but the Cabinet has never considered that request. The inordinate delay in payment of pension dues has visited anguish and financial distress to the affected pensioners, some of whom have passed away and their dependents are equally suffering. Hon. Speaker, it is against this backdrop that I seek a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Social Protection on the following – (i) What is the status of the request to the Cabinet by the PBK seeking authorisation to offset the pension dues by selling the Board’s properties? (ii) What measures has the Ministry put in place to ensure that the pension funds to the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya pensioners are disbursed without any further delay? I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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