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    "id": 1443305,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang’",
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    "content": "are paying Kshs1 trillion every year on interest alone, then when will we complete paying this debt? This is a serious burden that is messing up our economy. There was an outcry last week because the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) came up with a memo that state officers, including Members of Parliament (MPs), were going to get a pay rise of between seven to 10 per cent. I saw in the news that I was likely to get an additional Kshs14,000. I declare in this House that we did not ask for any pay rise. I am also not interested in any additional penny. If anything, we can revise our salaries downward. There are Kenyans who are going without food. An issue is even in yesterday's and today’s newspapers. The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) is sleeping on its job. We want it to do a proper audit on employees across the civil service, and give us proper data about those who are employed among the 42 or 43 tribes of Kenya in all organisations. The NCIC has the habit of releasing to us a piecemeal of one organisation. So, it looks biased. We want them to do it properly, including giving us ages. There is a conversation that between 2003 and 2004, the late President Kibaki in his wisdom increased the retirement age from 55 to 60 because the Government did not have money to pay pensioners. I think it is important that we relook at that issue and maybe go back. The law has not been changed. That was just an Executive Order through a Gazette Notice. We can revert to the retirement age of 55, so that the youthful Gen Z can get an opportunity to be employed. It is not a must that we reach 60 years. Some are already 60 years old and are asking for an extension of additional years. If you have not done anything useful for yourself at the age of 55 or even 50, even if you are given an additional two years or so, it will not help. We ask our colleagues in the National Assembly as they receive the Supplementary Budget after the referral of the Finance Bill, to ensure that resources are allocated for confirmation of the 46,000 Gen Z teachers. We also want them to allocate resources for our intern doctors. I remember yesterday our doctors went to occupy Afya House. I, however, believe that if the interns are confirmed, these issues will not be there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, we support and ask the Executive to move quickly with the reforms they promised the country last week. Thank you."
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