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    "id": 864810,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I will go straight to the point without deliberating. I support the Bill. I love this Senate because what we do here is to protect the interests of our counties and their governments. This Bill is quite timely. I am sure during the Third Reading of this Bill we will be proposing some amendments. I am happy that this Bill is proposing to set up an umbrella pension scheme with better benefits than what currently exists. I always sympathize with employees of the national Government who are transferred to work in the county governments. Looking at this Bill, I am concerned about employees who are 50 years and above and are about to retire because they will be excluded from joining this Scheme. My proposal would be to amend that provision of this Bill, so that everyone who has been seconded to the county governments benefits. My proposal is that if you have been working for the national Government for all those years, you must be paid your retirement benefits once you retire. It pains me to see people who have worked for this Government for many years chasing their retirement, day in day out, with less success. Some die even before they receive their benefits. Clause 53(3) of the Bill says: “A person who, at the commencement date, is an employee of the national Government and whose remaining period of service is five years or less, is not eligible to join Cap.189, the Scheme and shall have his or her pension paid out under Cap. 195 of the provisions of the Pensions Act and the Widows and Children Pensions Act or any other relevant legislation.” I will be proposing amendments to provide that all those employees who are seconded to the county governments, the Director of the Pension Services who sits at the National Treasury should calculate everything that is due to those employees and forward to this new Scheme which is being set up."
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