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    "id": 1029571,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "It is important for us to do financial training for these people for the money that they receive because some people think they will receive it forever. I think it is money that should not be received forever because we are still strong enough at 65. Some of the elderly people at home are people who have just retired, but maybe they did not plan for their retirement. They end up being very poor when they should not have been poor, because nobody trained them to know there is old age and retirement coming and there is a time when they will on their own since their children will no longer be there. These are trainings that are lacking. We need to put them in place so that with the money one can do activities such as table banking, agribusiness and small-scale trading. At 65 or 70 years, people can still do a lot of work; more so, in the villages because at 75 years we are not very old due to the type of food and the life we have gone through, unless one is sick. If somebody is not sick, people can be trained and shown that the money they are being given can be utilised. In addition, the same people can be utilised because I believe that at 65 and above the brain is still intact. It means that if one is a retired teacher, he or she can be a teacher in the village teaching adult education. They can be used for adult education. If one is a retired judge or magistrate, we can use them to help in dispute resolution within our communities. Last time when I was in the National Assembly, the Government tried to bring the courts to the villages. Who are we going to use at that level? We can plan to use the retired teachers, magistrates, nurses, doctors, community health workers and medical practitioners. After retirement, they can be used in the community level to add value to the elderly and each other. This is the gist of this Motion. The idea is that we are grateful that the Government is doing something to help the elderly, but the county governments should come in to support or complement where the national Government reaches. Additionally, the county governments should train these people to utilise the money in a manner that will add value to them. Once somebody feels that they are able or have setup a small business and they can move on, it means that the money should be given to somebody else. We know that the economy is not good. We are plagued with several things such as COVID-19. We have the economy performing badly due to different reasons."
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