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    "id": 853081,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "energy for the last one year to draft a Bill that is supposed to cure something that has not been legislated before, whether or not another Bill has come or whether that Bill has gone to wherever it is, I think it is only fair that we support such a Bill. I also sit in the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and when we took over with the able leadership of our Chair, there was a lot of pending business, one of which was this Bill because in the last Parliament, where the Leader of the Minority Party also served, it was never discussed. However, now we have worked extra hard to make sure that every pending business before our Committee has been prosecuted and that is why this morning we are here to discuss this Bill. We have had pensions of senior citizens being mismanaged and misappropriated and these are monies that these people have earned over the years only for one to attain retirement age and instead of retiring in peace and enjoying their pension, you find the money has not existed. This is a piece of legislation that is supposed to cure that. For this, again, I really support Hon. Njagagua on it. The issue of LAPTRUST and LAPFUND and combining these two pension schemes to form one scheme is very welcome. As a country, we have too many things doing everything. As you know, if the important thing is to save and invest the pension of these members of county assemblies and other employees of counties, then I do not understand why we should have these two schemes. It is very good that Hon. Njagagua has proposed that these two pension schemes be collapsed into one. To summarise, an Hon. Member has taken his time for the last two years to develop and work on a Bill, the least we can do as his colleagues is to support that Bill and make sure it is passed into law. With that, I support the Bill."
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