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    "id": 853149,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka-Nithi CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Beatrice Nyaga",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Nkatha Nyaga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. Hon. Njagagua is talking about the pension scheme for the county. I want to agree with him that the counties or the employees of the counties are Kenyans, they need to be supported. As we support them, we need to remember there are so many people who have worked for this country diligently and efficiently but they are really suffering. We have so many teachers outside there. Those who retired in 1997 were supposed to be paid their pension but to date, they have not been paid. It is very sad. We need to take care of the people who have worked for this nation. We have the finances and we have our budget, why do we not pay them? Currently, I am following the cases of some people in the National Treasury. I am following up cases in the National Treasury for some people, but unless you give something, the files are never found. You find someone dies without getting what he should from the Government. Why is this happening in the 21st Century? Why is there no money for pensioners who are supposed to live very humble lives? Somebody in employed at the National Treasury to take care of those files and see to it that pensioners get their dues. However, they are not paid on time and are not given what is theirs. What are those people doing in that office?"
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