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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oparanya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the real sense, that is not my question. That is a question for Mr. Dalmas Otieno. He is here but in the spirit of collective responsibility, I will try to answer it. However, if I do not give the correct answer, as the Minister in charge, he can chip in. Let me assure you that before the Government decided to increase the retirement age from 55 years to 60 years, there was a lot of review that was done. A lot of information was collected within the economy and it was established that even those people retiring are not replaced by young people. In fact, in this country, every year, only about 5,000 people retire. This is a very small number. Therefore, we felt that the trend in the world is now to increase retirement age. You heard the other day, even France increased the retirement age to 62 years. This is done so that the techniques of the people we have trained using Government money are used as much as possible. They have acquired skills which we cannot get from the youth and that is why we increased the retirement age from 55 years to 60 years."
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