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    "id": 1057924,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support the Statement by Sen. Sakaja, the Chair of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. Madam Deputy Speaker, the issue of cash transfer started some years back, to cushion the vulnerable in our society. It started as an experiment that eventually was effected. It started from Nyando and other districts. Madam Deputy Speaker, it was meant to be well meaning, to ensure that the vulnerable are being catered for. It is important that this programme is managed well. It needs to be well managed and coordinated. This is because when you go on the ground, you will find that there are some older people who are not benefitting from the cash transfer, and yet they are poor. Some of the older people’s children died a long time ago. Some of them are not living with their children. They are living elsewhere or working far from home. They have been abandoned or neglected. The onus is on the Government to ensure that the old are aging gracefully by ensuring that they get this cash transfer. Madam Deputy Speaker, it is unfortunate that the ones who deserve to get the cash transfer end up not getting the cash. Older people are lacking sugar, salt, food and other essentials, yet no one is catering for them. I believe that this Statement should be taken with a lot of seriousness, so that we address the issue of the aged. Madam Deputy Speaker, I was in London at one time and met a Kenyan who went to work there when she was a young girl. She confessed to me that she cannot come back to Kenya. This is because the government is taking good care of her as an elderly person. She can only come to Kenya to visit and then go back to London. Madam Deputy Speaker, we should reach that level, where we take care of our aged, so that they desire to be in this country. There are some aged people who are not able to get treatment, simply because they do not have National Hospital Insurance Fund The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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