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    "id": 548597,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/548597/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
        "slug": "dalmas-otieno"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you are aware that I was a Minister for Public Service. These issues of pension are areas of my specialty. When we did the Presidential pension, I pegged it at 80 per cent of the remuneration of the sitting President so that inflation is taken care of. When they brought these proposals, the first thing they changed was to say: “A per cent of the final salary when you retired.” That means it is static. If you live 20 years from retirement, you will be earning peanuts. Geoffrey Karithi is earning Kshs6000 because of these kinds of provisions in pension law. It is a pity that we are making provision for pension after somebody has retired and there are some people who attach it to the faces of the supposed recipients. This is because it is just the two persons for now. If you do not like their noses, you would rather the figure was 40 per cent of their last salaries. It is really nonsense, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. This should be totally rejected. First, it is per cent of past final salary some two years ago. Second, you want to reduce it further yet inflation is at seven per cent under the present statistics of the"
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