Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5941 to 5950 of 6175.

• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thought I had enumerated the steps we are taking to ensure that, in principle, every pensioner is paid within time. The issue here is, really, that of documentation. With the volume of claims that come to us, if the documentation is not right, we either open ourselves to fraud or we end up leaving out the good pensioners who need to be paid, but their files, or the relevant papers, cannot be traced. Movement of documents between the Pensions Department and parent Ministries is such that unless we capture such information in a better operating module, ... view
• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that this House passed a law on payment of pensions. However, the issue at hand is not that we do not have a law. The problem is the practicability of processing the pensions claims. It just takes too long. The Pensions Department receives about 1,000 new claims every month, as people retire. Now, if we do not have an effective system of capturing those claims, we may end up sending the monies to different places or in different accounts. Another problem we have is that the claimants are supposed to submit some information to ... view
• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if all the documentation is in place, pensioners do not need to come to Nairobi to collect their pension. Pension is actually sent to their bank accounts, and that works very fast. But if the pensioners want to come to Nairobi to collect the cash, then that is a different thing. view
• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, we promised to streamline the pension as well as the personnel systems. Currently, through the so-called "IPPD" System, we are integrating all the 3786 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 21, 2006 personnel data within the Ministries into one master database. That will help in terms of migrating people from--- You can move within Ministries and you will still be in the same database. Immediately you move into retirement, your data will be moved into a pension database. That is the computerization I am talking about that is ongoing. But we must remember that we are talking about processing ... view
• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not sure where the ignorance lies, but I have explained the system. If the hon. Member was listening, he would have heard exactly what I said. view
• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not aware of any system that has been put in place to extract money from pensioners. We are reforming the Pensions Department to expedite the payment of money to the pensioners. view
• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I believe that we are looking at two things here. There are people who are currently retiring, especially within the framework of the current administration. We do not have a problem. We know where they are going and the necessary documentation is being passed on. But there are those people who retired in the past and who have never submitted their paperwork. Those are the people who are saying that they have waited for five, six or ten years to actually get the paperwork. So, the first thing is that, we need the documentation to authenticate that ... view
• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, modernization is an ongoing process. As we talk, we are processing over 1,000 new claims that get into the system every month and are paid. I cannot quite put a timeline in terms of when we would have finished updating all the claims because we do not even know some of those that are still out there when there was no system of capturing them. But we are working flat out to ensure that all pensioners are in the system and they are actually getting their dues when they should be getting them. view
• 21 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Bill which comes at a time when we need to sort out our energy requirements. Let me start by congratulating, not just the team that has been putting it together but also our players within the industry; whether you are talking about generation and distribution of energy and the efficiency with which our parastatals are run. We have see them peform well in their performance contracts. We have seen them paying dividends and we now know that if all this money is coming to the Exchequer, I think ... view
• 14 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to continue from where I had reached in terms of this Bill. I had explained the background to this Bill and got to a point of discussing the department of insurance. To perform its role effectively, the Department of Insurance needs to recruit and retain highly qualified and experienced technical staff. This has not been possible in view of the various salaries and other terms of employment offered by the private sector. In most African countries, including our neighbouring countries of Tanzania and Uganda, this has been dealt with through the creation of independent ... view