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    "id": 19493,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/19493/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 189,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 142,
        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
        "slug": "aden-sugow"
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    "content": "Secondly, studies by the Government as well as actuaries show that Kenya is one of the few countries whose public service pension scheme is still non-contributory. A non-contributory pension scheme has other challenges, including the following:- (i) low pension benefits to individual employees yet it has higher overall costs currently standing at Kshs30 billion with the lowest monthly pension being as low as Kshs3,000; (ii) too many restrictions governing eligibility for payment of pensions, including loss of pension rights if an employee leaves the Public Service before attainment of the age of 50 years or is dismissed from the Service; (iii) limitation of movement from the public sector to the private sector; and, (iv) the non-contributory pension scheme has also held back employees who may wish to exit the service early and try their hand in self employment since such employees have to wait until they attain the age of 50 years to qualify for pension and consequently, the Government has been keeping employees who are better suited for ventures other than provision of public service."
}