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    "id": 1003069,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bura, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Wario",
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    "content": "of age, others being orphaned and others severely disabled due to accidents. The Ministry continuously updates this data and targets new beneficiaries subject to availability of funds. What steps has the Government taken to ensure that the said needy persons who qualify to benefit from the programme in Ruiru Constituency and who from 2018 have not been included in the system having been registered? It is true there are some needy persons who were not registered in 2018 in Ruiru Constituency like in many other constituencies in the country, and could not make it to the payroll. This was due to inaccuracies in the records after data was subjected to Integrated Population Registration Services (IPRS). There are those who turned 70 years plus and have not been brought into the programme not just in Ruiru, but all over the country. In order to correct these inaccuracies, the Ministry is planning to carry out countrywide retargeting and reregistration exercises with the aim of collecting fresh information on all those cases and incorporate them into the payroll. The exercise has been hampered by inadequate resource allocation. In the current Financial Year 2019/2020, the budget deficit stands at Kshs3.9 billion. To include all the needy persons above the age of 70 years who are currently estimated to be 250,000, the Ministry will require a further Kshs6.6 billion. This was one of the recommendations made by my Committee to the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the 2020/2021 Estimates. If this request is granted, I can commit to the House that all the deserving cases in Ruiru Constituency and the country as a whole will be brought on board. Finally, there was a question whether the relevant ministry could state the timeline for the disbursement of the cash and opening up of the systems to update the names of those who were not included previously. On updating the names of those who were not included previously, the Ministry is planning to carry out Phase III migration which will involve retargeting and re- registration or targeting of beneficiaries in the legacy file as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic situation improves to allow field-based activities. On the other hand, update of beneficiary information is continuously being carried out centrally at the Ministry’s headquarters whenever they are received. However, in future, it is the plan of the Ministry to decentralise a management information system module which deals with the chain management to the counties and sub-counties so that all the updates are done by the officers at that level. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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