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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kwenya Thuku",
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": "I would also like to speak about pensions. We have not paid lump sum payments to pensioners who retired five or ten years ago. There is authority to spend from the Consolidated Fund. You hear they are not paid because of liquidity or other issues. That is not the issue. We must pronounce ourselves on this as Parliament. Much corruption is happening. You cannot convince me on why they have not paid someone who retired in 2020, yet the one who retired in 2024 has received the lump sum payment and their monthly pension. We need to look into that. My recommendation is that we have a first-in first-out arrangement. Whoever retired last should wait for their pension after whoever retired first gets it. That way, there will be a seamless payment that will not be seen to be favourable along who knows whom in the technical ranks in the pensions department. If you look keenly, you will realise that pensions are exponentially increasing. As a country, we should ask ourselves whether this trend is sustainable. Therefore, I join those asking what the retirement age of our civil servants should be. The sooner they retire, the more we depress this pension space. We will be paying so much to people who have the ability to work in the Government. Again, there is creating employment for young people. It is a balance to keep. We will be saying something else when we decide that every civil servant must retire at 60. We will be straining our CFS expenditure on the amount of pensions we should be paying. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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