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    "id": 991741,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/991741/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a labour issue and I want to thank the petitioner for raising this matter with the Senate. Labour issues have been a mess in our counties and we have been struggling as the Committee on Labor and Social Welfare to get a hand on them. We have several proposals, including legislative proposals that we are bringing because of the nature of having 47 different Public Service Boards without a coordinated way of working. We have brought to this House a County Public Service Board Bill that will help us address many of these things that cut across counties. When we came up with devolution in 2010, it was not to create ethnic balkans; that someone who is born in Tharaka-Nithi must work only in that county. There are certain skills that need transferability and coordination between counties. Then within counties, we have many cases like this, including non-remittance of statutory deductions. The counties owe the pension funds, the Local Authorities Pensions Trust (LapTrust) and the Local Authorities Provident Fund (LapFund), possibly now maybe at least Kshs70 billion. There are many of the former workers of local authorities – pensioners - who cannot access money that they worked for over years of giving service. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to assure this House that the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, which I lead and ably deputized by Sen. (Dr.) Milgo, who I saw earlier, will look into this. On top of this, we shall give that legislative proposal which I hope can be fast tracked so that tomorrow it is not Tharaka-Nithi then Nairobi, Narok, Vihiga, because this is happening in all our counties. I want to give that undertaking if this Petition---"
}