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    "id": 1029568,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1029568/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 738,
        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "The national Government alone cannot take care of all the elderly. If you look at the statistics, we have about 900,000 elderly people; that is, people who are 70 years and above. The listing should start at 65 years. However, the people in Kenya who are above 70 years are only 900,000. If you compare that with the population of Kenya which is 47 million, we have a very small percentage of the elderly people. I recognize that the national Government cannot take care of all these people and that is why we are appealing. I had an opportunity to visit the Ministry of Labour and the department that takes care of the elderly. The strategies they are laying down on the table is that, yes, the national Government is trying to list all of them, but the county governments should come up with proper policies and mechanisms of listing them. The most important thing is to list them. Some people are not even listed because it goes through the chief, sub-chief, District Officer (DO) and so on. Some people who are listed are not elderly. I can give an example of my own village where I know of particular people who have been listed by the chiefs or the sub-chiefs, but they do not qualify. We miss the target. This responsibility should be transferred to the county governments, since nowadays, we have the village elders. It has been structured from the Village Elder to the Ward Administrator, to the sub-county and then to the county. It means that we capture everybody who is elderly. The Government can take the percentage that they can. However, the rest of the percentage should be taken over by the county governments. When I was serving as the Women Representative, I had an opportunity to work with a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). I worked with the Miral Welfare Foundation NGO being supported by the Korean Government, and I still work with them up to now. The NGO took one ward and in that ward, we identified the elderly and people living with disabilities and put up structures of helping them. If one is too old, they support you with a person to take care of you, cook or go get money for you. However, how much can you trust if anybody is fit to take care of a person? We can have our own structures within the villages because we have Nyumba"
}