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    "id": 810761,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Masaba, NAPK",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ezekiel Ombaki",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": "support the amendment that rather than reducing the figure of the employees’ contribution from 12 per cent to 7 per cent, that figure should remain at 12 per cent. If anything, it should even be enhanced because we know the kind of problems that we get when people attain the age of retirement and we do not want to add the number of dependants. The dependants’ syndrome we already have in the country of 9:1 is quite high such that nine people depend upon one person for their socio-economic wellbeing. So, by retaining that figure at 12 per cent or enhance it a bit, we will make sure that once the people retire, they will be able to support themselves. People are vulnerable at this age to diseases. They can cater for themselves only once they enjoy the pension benefits. Also, there has been a practice before where counties and other bodies do not remit statutory contributions. Pension is an obligation. It is statutory where every organisation, be it a county or any other, is supposed to remit the money on a monthly basis. Clauses 48, 49 and 50 should even be stiffer. Any county defaulting in this should be denied the quarterly allocation that they are supposed to get from the national Government to such a level where they are able to realise that this is a right of the employee and failing to remit the money at any given time is criminal. An employee finishing his period of service and finding money was not remitted is the most serious thing that some of these organisations indulge in. We should not have separate schemes. You find that county assemblies are advocating for a separate scheme and the CoG is also supporting a separate one. They should be harmonised in such a manner that we have one scheme covering the entire county. With that, I wish to support."
}