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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, it is even worse for teachers. We have teachers who should be retiring at 60 years. I am sure they are preparing because most of them will retire next year or at the end of this year. What is surprising is that after somebody retires, and more so, a teacher, he will be required to submit the last payslip which will be retained by the same employer. You are asked to surrender it to the pension officers. In the forms which are filled by the employee, they even ask you to state the next of kin, your district, location, chief and sub-chief. With devolution which we are seeking in this Motion, it will be very easy for somebody to be traced than it is at the moment. Once this Motion is passed, it should translate into a Bill. This should be the second Bill after the one that was passed in the Ninth Parliament. We should also appoint one or two people to follow it up because this is a very agonizing state of affairs, considering that this happens when somebody has retired and yet they are supposed to pay house rent. It is a punishment for the employee to keep on making trips to Nairobi and giving out bribes. If you make a mistake of not pronouncing the name of the officer handling your case, you are told to come the following month. I have been there. It is that bad. Madam Temporary Speaker, even if we come up with amendments, it is important that this is dealt with, once and for all, so that we do not come here again to seek for the retirement benefits to be paid after six months. It should be immediate. We had proposed within the first three months, benefits be paid to the retiree. It never happened, it has never happened and I do not see it happening. So, the best thing we should do to this Motion is to make a follow up to know what is happening in this department. If the Director of Pensions is not performing his duties, he should be sacked. We are already in the digital era and from computerized data it is easy to tell when an individual is retiring. When I was a teacher, I remember I used to get payslips with my age printed on them. So, these people already know that you are about to retire. Why should people suffer after attaining the age of 60 years? These officers should know how many people are retiring each year. If you are not careful you will be treated to shock when you discover that after 60 years, the retirees may not be paid immediately. They will be paid even after five years. This will be defeating the spirit of the Motion we are debating here. That is why I am calling for some checks and balances on the progress of this Motion because it is the nerve centre of our debate in this House. It is very bad for people to travel from northern Kenya, western and coast to come and hire lodgings in Nairobi pursuing their dues and benefits that they have earned for the last 50 years. These are dues they have planned for---"
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