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    "id": 853084,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "Teachers have complained about retirement. There are teachers in this country who retired in 1997. In the last Parliament, I was in the Departmental Committee on Education and Research and cases of teachers who retired in 1997 has not been resolved. Teachers have died without receiving their dues. It is a big shame for a country to allow such things to happen. In other countries, retired people are senior citizens who are looked after very well. In other foreign countries, retired people whom they call senior citizens are given free services. When they get into public buses, they have special seats. They have special medical care. They have homes where they can stay when they do not have children or there is nobody to take of them. We are moving towards that direction and need to clean our house first by managing the funds that are contributed for retirement. My last point is that retirement should be a good time to go home, relax and wait for your days to end. You must spend your sunset years more comfortably. The retirement fund should always be disbursed on time. Your retirement benefits should start coming in during the last month of your working years. They should not delay and subject you to chasing for this money at the headquarters in Nairobi. It is your right and should be disbursed monthly without fail. My contribution towards retirement is that both Bills coming to this House mean well. They have good intentions and we just need to collapse them into one and ensure that where there are some differences, we panel beat them and come up with one big Bill that will save this country, especially the elderly. This is a wonderful Bill. I support it and thank the Member of Parliament who thought of this Bill to save the elderly. In the villages, the elderly are so vulnerable to various diseases. This is the only way to save them and make them comfortable. We must also know that we ourselves will be old. We will be beneficiaries of the Bills we make in this House. I support the Bill."
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