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    "id": 1003095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1003095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bura, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Wario",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ali Wario",
        "slug": "ali-wario"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As you have rightly put, two weeks ago, I tabled a Report here with an electronic report showing the number of beneficiaries per constituency. We elaborated in that Report the bigger challenges facing us. We said in that Report that in the current financial year, we have a deficit of Kshs3.3 billion. In the recently concluded Census, there were 250,000 old persons who are 70 years and above. For us to bring all of them on board, we need Kshs9.9 billion. I appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee and I shared with them that challenge. If they will be included, we will address this problem once and for all. Research is key. Members are only concerned with persons who have reached the age of 70. There are those who have died. We need to clean the register and bring on board those who are 70 years. That way, we will be speaking from a point of knowledge. Finally, Hon. Simon has talked of unsatisfactory answers. Last week, Hon. Speaker, I called Hon. Simon six times and even text messaged him. We invited the Ministry and I invited him to sit with the Cabinet Secretary and share his concerns before I bring the answer to the House. Unfortunately, my calls to him were not going through and he never responded back when I text messaged him. So, what was I supposed to do? I have to report the answer that I was given. Thank you."
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