{"id":169720,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/169720/?format=json","text_counter":227,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Otieno","speaker_title":"The Minister of State for Public Service","speaker":null,"content":"(c) The retrenchment exercise was meant to reduce and rationalise the size of the Civil Service in order to contain the budgetary constraints and improve effectiveness and efficiency in service delivery. This reform initiative included abolition of certain offices, hence the retrenched civil servants cannot be reinstated since their respective offices were actually abolished. The retrenchees have been paid their golden handshake."}