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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. Let me start by saying that most Government agencies know exactly when an employee will retire. They even give a year’s notice prior to the retirement date. The note shows that next year, you will retire because you will have either reached the age of either 55 or 60. So, we cannot say that they do not know. In fact, they stop your salary forthwith when that time reaches. At times, I wonder why the file disappears because it was available when they were stopping your salary pronto. But immediately your salary is stopped, your file disappears. If you went to the Office of the President and even looked for it for six months, you would not find it. If you went to any other institution, that would also be the situation. This is the problem in every other institution and because you are not in office, nobody will want to talk to you. You will realise this when you lose your seats. Immediately you become a former Senator, no one will seem to notice your face. This is extremely painful now that you are also out of pocket. You are supposed to walk from office to office and the only other person you can go to is your Member of Parliament or Senator to sort you out. In fact, why can they not have a Cabinet for files of people who will retire this year so that immediately you come, they quickly pull it out? The other thing they ask you to produce is your last payment slip as if they are not the ones who paid you and as if they do not have the records. And if they do not have the record and then they ask you for your national identity card, which they have always kept in your file for all these years you have been working. In fact, they will not pay you a coin if you did not have that identity card; they will not pay your National Social Security Fund (NSSF) claims if you did not have that identity card. But now, it is a requirement; bring your identity card and bring your last pay slip. In fact, sometimes it is more difficult for widows who do not find pay slips of their dead husbands, because we do not usually show them our pay slips."
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