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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to retirement benefits, among the nine officers who were retired, six of them received their final dues. The remaining three who were in issue have not submitted the requisite documents for processing payment of the retirement benefits. I want to confirm here that if Samu has actually submitted her documents, I will ensure that she is paid expeditiously. It is important to note that these officers were eventually retired under public interest. At the time, I had to make a very strong intervention because the other military commanders, as I indicated when I answered this Question before by Dr. Monda, were of the view that they should have been summarily dismissed. I thought that times have changed as my colleagues have pointed out. However, we do not want to compromise discipline in our defence forces. These are men and women bearing arms. Always, we talk about bearing responsibility and this is exactly what happened. I think they should appreciate that they were not dismissed after all. Some of them are continuing with civil action. Should the courts find that the Government should reinstate these people, I want to give assurance to this House that we shall comply because that is the situation we find ourselves in particularly under the new Constitution."
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