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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the case of our public servants retirement benefits is pathetic. I could even say ridiculous, because most of them are getting pensions not even sufficient to pay for one week’s medical prescription. But as a professional in this area, when I arrived at the Ministry, I said we had to address this matter on a long-term basis and totally change the pension programme from a benefits defined programme to a contributory defined programme, which Parliament has already approved and I am waiting for its implementation, so that we detach the pensions from the annual budgetary processes where the Government has found it difficult to keep pace with reasonable pension payments to our officers. So, on a long-term basis, as soon as the new Public Service Superannuation Scheme comes into force, we will start addressing the matter. Then the Government can turn back and look at the existing pensioners, about 200,000 of them, and be able to award something reasonable, something sensible. As it is now, it is totally unacceptable, yet the reason I keep getting is budgetary constraints."
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