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MP wants workers retired at 50, not 60

Charles 'Jaguar' Kanyi, Starehe MP.

Kenya is staring at a major pension crisis should a proposed amendment intending to slash the retirement age by 10 years become law.

Increasingly struggling to keep up with the soaring Pension Bill, a decision was taken in 2009 to allow public workers to stay on for five more years, raising the retirement age from 55 to 60. 

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