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    "id": 1007431,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "take care of them. We only live for that reason so that we may do that duty of taking care of the elderly and our parents. This is a very important law. If you look at what is happening in other countries, COVID-19 mostly affected the nursing homes in many parts of the world where the older people were caught by surprise. Out of the more than10 million infections, statistics show that out of half a million or so deaths, were of the elderly than of younger people. There was one case we had in America where an elderly person surrendered a ventilator for a younger person and said he had lived his life and was ready to die. So, we want older people to bless us as they leave because this is something that is real. Older people are the ones who leave their property behind. There are many succession cases where younger people fight for the wealth of their parents instead of them also struggling to look for their own wealth. In many occasions where older persons were not taken care of while they lived, you find that whatever that is left behind is not blessed. Therefore, it is very important to have a framework on how to deal with the older people who have no families to take care of them, no children to take care of them and no children to love them. Some never had children at all and by God’s grace they lived many years even up to 100 years. My grandmother lived for 127 years. In her lifetime she never went to hospital. So, when she got sick with a heart problem she did not go beyond those years. She passed on when I was a first term Member of Parliament. When I started practising as a lawyer, she claimed she lived more because I took care of her. I think we have a duty all of us and the whole world that younger people take responsibility and take care of the older people, talk to them and even get stories of those earlier days. I am sure those who have parents who have lived over100 years can tell us about the Spanish Flu that occurred 100 years ago and which was like the pandemic we have. That sort of talk could improve what is happening currently. So, I support the law and authority which comes up with structures, a budget and a method, the care giving and ensuring that people are not abused in old age. We have great grandparents who have been killed by grandchildren because of this money that the Government is giving them because the younger ones think the older persons do not deserve it. Are we still going to charge bills for the old in hospitals? For these people we can ensure their lives are made comfortable and they are useful to the country. We also have old people who abuse grandchildren left under their care for one reason or another like culture. What happens if an older person has a court case and is convicted? Who will pay their fine or bail? Will that old person stay in custody because they are unable to pay their bail?"
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