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    "id": 19499,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 185,
        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to take this opportunity to really thank the Minister for bringing this Bill before the House at this time. It is a good thing that finally this Bill has found its way to this place. There are a lot of very distinguished public servants who have sincerely suffered because of their pension arrangements, particularly for those of us who come from areas which are distant from Nairobi. It has been a problem for them. We thank the Minister for trying to put this law in place. However, there are a few things that need to be clarified. This Bill is supposed to be a contributory public service superannuation scheme for providing retirement benefits to persons in the public service and connected purposes. The definition that “public service” has been given here means employment in the service of the Government. Then they talk about “by the Public Service Commission, by the Teachers Service Commission as a teacher or by the National Police Service Commission or by other service that the Minister determines to be public service for the purposes of this Act”. It has also been defined. “Government” means the national Government.” This Act does not mention anything about the county governments. It has completely disregarded the existence of public service within the county governments. In fact, I am surprised that in this Act they were able to capture the National Police Service Commission which we set up under the new Constitution. However, they failed to capture the issues regarding Public Service for the county. We would want to know why the Minister has done that and what happens to the employees of the Public Service in the county governments because they also need this kind of security for their old age."
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