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    "id": 587569,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "This Bill goes on to add stress to counties. There are so many facilities and issues of development that counties with a minimum envelope available to them, have to do to better the lives of people. We are Africans. Once you become a grandfather or reach the age that the distinguished Senator is calling “senior citizen” - he is putting it at 65, which is the retirement age, and I believe that is where he picked it, people at the age are very active. If they are farmers, they are busy driving their tractors and doing all manner of things. In African families, when we were growing up as little children, our parents would send us to go to sleep in the houses of our grandparents. Before we slept, we would be told stories, given wisdom, told how life was and how society has shifted from where it was to where it is. Children would pick wisdom from those older people. It is very dangerous to try and create a situation where we make advanced age look like it is a barrier or stigma. That when you get to 65 years, your family can disown you, take you to a borstal home to stay there and look miserable. This is a home where you live with people whom you have never met in your life. At 65 years, you are unlikely to make good new friends and you will simply be living with acquaintances. If you go to a village in Bomet County where the distinguished Senator comes from, there are people that he went to Standard One with, did Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) with, got circumcised with, went to Form Four with and came to witness his marriage and he witnessed theirs. At every stage, you create an impregnable bond in life, to the extent that when you have a function in your home as an elder of the Maasai, the first people to invite are those that you have those distinctions with in life at every stage. “ Niitie wale niliyotahiriwa nao. ” They come, you sit and talk different things. You call those who escorted you to get married and you talk different things. You are unlikely to fish them from these borstal institutions to help you do those things. We are all African, Sen. (Prof.) Lesan included. In Africa, we take pride in looking after our parents. Even those who are deprived and are poor in society have a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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