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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As we open up our institutions, now that we have a number of things we have achieved or we need to achieve after the promulgation of the new Constitution in August 2010, the welfare of every Kenyan is very important. There is no way we can take care of the welfare of our people without having records or information on where they are or what they are doing. It is on that basis that I believe that those who have served like the military and former Members of Parliament--- The other day we were debating about the welfare of Members of Parliament and there are many others. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other day the court made a ruling on a matter that has been here with us for a long time, about those teachers who retired. There has been a tug of war between Government and the institution that takes care of the welfare of the teachers. The court made a ruling that they have to be paid their dues. We have a problem of forgetting or our memory as a country is very poor. We have some of our military men who did a lot of work during the 1998 bomb blast. Some people from the armed forces did a lot of work there. However, immediately after that, because of the success they had made, they were retired instead of being rewarded or kept on service so that they can be promoted. Therefore, from the welfare point of view and having data on what we have as a country, it is important that we support this Bill. It is for this purpose that we must know the skills we have. The former military officers have various skills; we have engineers, doctors, architects, quantity surveyors and so on. We even have those who were recruited as veterinary officers. It is proper that we have some way of documenting where these people are. They must be somewhere, if they are in Kenya. We must know where they are. Like the matter we are facing at the moment; security problem, we may not have enough personnel to be deployed to some of these places, but some of them can be recruited to do this on voluntary basis, maybe with some little pay."
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