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"content": "For two consecutive years, the NSSF has remained without a properly appointed managing trustee. NSSF has been without a Chair for about a year, simply because there is competition. The competition is not to run it efficiently, but to take away what belongs to the taxpayers, particularly the elderly. This is why as a Committee, and for those who had an opportunity to go through the Press, we had serious issues with the way the audit of the NSSF is done. For the first time, the hunter became the hunted. We had to question some of the provisions made by the Auditor-General’s Office because they were not consistent with what we all know about the NSSF. As the leadership and as one of the three arms of the Government, as truly the people’s representative, we must stand up for the rights of the pensioners and protect their investments because all of us will grow old. By the end of our term here, quite a number of Members will be trekking towards the offices of the NSSF to find out how they will fair in their old age. Because of this, we must think out of the box and expand our horizon of thinking and protect the pensioner’s Fund. Which of these mega projects initiated by the NSSF since 1990 has added value to the taxpayers? We have the Hazina Towers and so many useless towers. I am using the word “useless” because they do not generate meaningful value driven to the NSSF and by extension the taxpayers and the pensioners. Immediately the NSSF bought this, and because it was associated with the politically correct, the high and the mighty, squatters moved into that piece of land. Therefore, in September 2001, just some few months before the 2002 General Election, and you can calculate, illegal squatters came all over and with the assistance of land grabbers and land speculators, the blocks of 97/ 21198 and 21190 were divided into 5,500 plots claiming to have been sold by these fraudsters covering for the interests of the politically correct. Therefore, the NSSF bought this piece of land sometimes in 1995 at a cost of Kshs2.2 billion. It must be about Kshs30 billion taking into account inflation and today’s value of the shilling. The land was immediately occupied by the squatters. What is missing is who owned that piece of land initially. Who were the original owners of that piece of land? The details are missing and if they are there, they are scanty. After 1995, six years down the line, squatters were incited in court. Squatters in Nairobi are not real squatters. They are people who are brought in and occupy land. They divided it among themselves and, therefore, the NSSF remained landless. Instead of utilising and developing that huge infrastructure for the benefit of pensioners, it became an idle land for gossipers, land grabbers, wheeler dealers and the politically correct. Therefore, the NSSF lost that piece of land. Using the creative imagination of those individuals, the NSSF went to court in 2004. The court took so long. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you are a lawyer. The NSSF went to court under a certificate of urgency in order to have the squatters evicted. That took so long. Even getting the ruling took long. That tells you the extent of the manipulations of the politically correct. Eventually, this issue was sorted out after the intervention of the Ministry and the Office of the President. Why would the Office of the President and the Ministry of Labour get involved in the management of an autonomous institution? That in itself sends a wrong message. The trustees and the management should have been left to run this organisation. In 2004, the negotiations led to something that was called out-of-court-settlement. The NSSF was told to develop the plot. Look at the trend. First, you buy this piece of land from speculators or politically correct individuals who are most likely politicians or associates. They incite their followers and occupy the piece of land. They divide the same into plots. When you The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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