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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity. I agree, more than ever before, with the previous speaker, Hon. Serem. What he is saying is exactly what I wanted to say. I think people who have worked and served this country with passion, energy and time need justice. They have suffered. Others like the police missed bullets or they would have died years back. I agree with him and say that this Bill is properly in this House. Those who wanted to say it is not in this House were mistaken. Employees who put so much time and served this nation with integrity are suffering out there. I have cases where former members of county councils come all the way asking for transport to come to Nairobi. I give them accommodation so that they can go and look for their pension, but they go home empty handed. Therefore, this Pension Bill brought by Mr. Muriuki is properly in this House. We have to look at the fate and plight of our brothers and sisters who served this country years back. The best we can do is to look at this Bill. I hope there will be follow up to implementation at the end of it all when we pass it. All the comments passionately made by Members should be implemented to the letter. I know five of them who served when the county councils were there. They look miserable. When you go to their homes and look at them, their offspring are suffering, they have not been educated and others are sick. They have to hold Harambees to be able to take care of the offspring. Therefore, something should be done. Those who work in pension schemes in this country, please hear us. Let them assist those who retire. As we talk about it, the value of the shilling in 1980 or 1985 is not the same as today. It has depreciated. Whatever was being given in 1990 is of no value today. We should upgrade our shilling. If somebody was getting Kshs15,000, it should not be the same. What is Kshs15,000 today? It is bus fare from Kitale to this place. We, who are looking at this pension scheme, should also upgrade the value of the shilling today to that time. If somebody was entitled to Kshs 15,000 pension, we should appreciate it so that he can receive about Kshs 80,000. The officers at the pension should not just think that since you were getting a certain amount, you should be getting that same amount, it will be of no value. Our brothers and sisters are suffering out there even after they worked for the good of this country. It is only today that we are seeing corruption. In those days there was no corruption, we had a good system. Today, people are corrupt. That notwithstanding, we should be able to evaluate a shilling. If one was getting Kshs 20,000 please appreciate that because the value of the shilling today is not the same as it was in 1990s."
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