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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank all the Members who contributed immensely to this Bill. The principal objective of this Bill is to establish county government retirement scheme. Yes, former councillors have predicaments but they cannot fit into this Bill. They have come to my office but I have no solution for them. Thousands of councillors are suffering. The best route Members were saying this afternoon is to bring a petition. Furthermore, that petition is of money nature. Secondly, this Bill provides for the establishment of scheme’s board of trustees. Thirdly, this Bill provides the funds administrator, custodian and manager and their functions. To allay the fears of the existing funds, supporting either the county assemblies or the county governments, there are transitional clauses in this Bill so that existing institutions’ assets, liabilities and contributions will be taken care of and transferred to the new scheme. So, there is a period given out. Members have contributed. This is a universal scheme for all the former county and national Government workers who were taken by the 47 county governments. When we come to the Committee of the whole House, hopefully after the recess, this Bill will undergo some further amendments either by the Committee or by the respective Government agencies and the National Treasury. Finally, within the PFM Act, it is only the CS, the National Treasury, who has the powers to create a pension fund. So, whether you use an individual private Member as the sponsor of the Bill, powers lie with the CS. That is why the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning agreed to this Bill more than the other Bill by the private Member because the function and powers to set up a pension fund lie with the CS. Our colleagues, the Senators, are looking for a fund like the ones for the 47 women representatives or the NG-CDF. Any fund that will be created under this Constitution or the PFM Act must be a fund where the regulations are signed by the Cabinet Secretary, the National Treasury and nobody else. I have told the Senators to ensure that their regulations are signed by Henry Rotich the current Cabinet Secretary, who will bring them to the House and we will help them where it is applicable in legislation."
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