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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Samwel Chepkonga (",
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    "content": "I want to speak about two very important things with regard to this Bill. It sets out, in clear terms, what the pension scheme would entail. As we align it with the Constitution, we seek to remove those areas which cause discrimination and contract Article 27 (4) of the Constitution, which says that no person should be discriminated against on the basis of anything. The Parliamentary Service Commission, which is our employer, runs a pension scheme for members of staff, which is domiciled within it. With regard to the Members of Parliament, the other half of its employees, it is run in the Executive arm of the Government. We must sort out that anomaly. I would like to request Hon. Makali Mulu to come up with an amendment to domicile the Members' pension scheme within the PSC so that we do not have to go to the Executive to sort out our matters. All our matters should be resolved in-house. When I retired in 2017, I went to look for my gratuity, and I was tossed from one floor to the other. At one point, I was told to go to the seventh floor in the National Treasury Buildings and after getting there, I was told to go to look for somebody on the 12th Floor. When I got there, I was again told to go to the ninth floor. At that time, we are totally frustrated. You have been thrown out of your elective seat and you do not have money and all your hopes to get money are frustrated. If this scheme was domiciled in the PSC, I would just walk to their offices and get my gratuity processed. Why should we be sent to a place we have not worked? I am not a member of the Executive. Secondly, we must ensure that this Bill answers the question of the post-retirement medical scheme. We have very many schemes here: the mortgage scheme and the loan scheme. Why can we not also have this scheme which will benefit Members? We are not asking anyone to give us money. We will contribute towards the scheme. We just want to be provided with a platform where we can contribute this money so that when we retire, we enjoy medical facilities as we were doing before. We know of many other institutions which do the same. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I request a minute to finish on this issue. The establishment of our pension scheme…"
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