Uhuru Kenyatta

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Entries 1441 to 1450 of 1613.

• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, I beg to move that the Committee doth report to the House its consideration of the Presidential Memorandum on the Fiscal Management and its approval thereof with amendments. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with Committee in the said Report. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the relevant Assistant Minister is here. He is the one who is well placed to answer that Question. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Delays in processing of retirement benefits are caused by many factors. Those factors include the retiree not completing the requisite pension forms on time, the parent Ministry or the Teachers Service Commission failing to prepare the pension claim documents or failing to attach all the relevant supporting documents to the Pensions Department. It takes an average of 38 days to process a fully documented claim at the Pensions Department. (b) The Ministry of Finance has procured a modern Pensions Management Information System (PMIS) whose installation is ongoing and is expected to ... view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, recently, the Permanent Secretary in the Treasury actually issued a Circular to all the Ministries requiring them to submit pension claims to the Pensions Department, at least, three months prior to the date of an officer’s retirement. The whole purpose of, this is to enable the Pensions Department to have view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that can ultimately be looked at, but I think the most important thing that we needed to do was to capture the data. That is why we are looking for that new system. Once all the data has been captured, it will then be easy to process payments even at a devolved level at the provincial headquarters. But, first, we need the system in place. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, it is in recognition of that problem that we are implementing the new system. Currently, we are processing the documents manually. We have only 150 officers dealing with over 190,000 pensioners. So, as you can appreciate, that is a very large number and, hence, the investment in a new system that will go a long way towards ensuring that we do not have to keep pensioners waiting around in Nairobi, instead of receiving their dues on time. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: I do believe, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, and once again, I am sorry for repeating the same line about the information system. The big problem in the delay comes from processing. Now, unless we can capture that data and be able to prepare the payments well in advance, it becomes difficult for the number of officers dealing with the huge number of cases while using a manual system. But I do believe that once the system is in place, it will rapidly reduce the waiting period that pensioners have had to wait to receive their dues. That, I believe, will ... view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say soon. I think he did not hear the original answer. Had he heard the original answer, he would not have asked the question. I said that the system will be operational by August, 2009, and it will be fully implemented by June, 2010. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that we have a great deal of respect for those gallant sons--- view