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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "These are public funds which must be taken care of through appropriate legislation. That legislation is what we have before this House through the effort of a Private Member. Let me talk about the importance of a pension scheme to the Members of the county governments. In fact, without gainsaying, there have been dismissals in most of the counties when a new regime comes in. There is wanton process of dismissing employees, some with reasons and others without, some fairly and others unfairly. These employees have found themselves in the streets without a job, one day and it is important if they had a scheme which they can fall back to. We know that there have been cases of litigation in the counties regarding dismissals and some of them have ended in a manner that is unfair to employees who have found themselves destitute. It is because of this destitution that we as a House should come to the aid of employees of county governments, so that they have a fallback position of a pension, in case they find themselves jobless. It is also important to say that county governments should be discouraged from sacking, dismissing or in any manner terminating employment of employees in unfair and unjust manner. It is not fair and cannot be just that when a new regime takes over a county government its first business in that county are the employees. They try to replace them either as ghost or incompetent workers who were not properly employed with new employees. Those new employees possibly are recruited on the basis of either political or personal inclination. This is a practice that we should all frown against and discourage. This is why we are saying because it is inevitable that employees of the county governments may find themselves in such scenarios, we have a properly set up pension scheme that will cushion them against such malpractices. With those few remarks, I support this Bill and urge Members to pass the same."
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