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    "id": 1059448,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 51(1) which provides that a Chairperson can make a Statement on a matter for which the Committee is responsible I would like to make a Statement on the Inua Jamii Programme as a follow of the Houses’ last discussion on this matter. At the sitting of the Senate on Tuesday 2nd March, 2021, I informed the House by leave of my Committee that we had received communication from the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection; the State Department of Social Protection regarding the payment drive to beneficiaries under the Inua Jamii Programme that had commenced on 22nd February, 2021. Madam Deputy Speaker, Senators urged the Committee to get more details on the matter. I wish to inform the House that we have invited the Cabinet Secretary Labour and Social Protection together with his Principal Secretary of the said department to come and shed light on the following matters- (i) A briefing on the payment process that commenced on 22nd February, 2021 - I had given the amount which is close to Kshs8 billion - on the challenges encountered and whether they achieved 100 per cent success; (ii) The institutional framework in place to implement each of the programmes including the criteria for selection to the programmes, the implementation framework and monitoring and evaluation of these programmes; (iii) How far the State department is in the registration of older persons of society on the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to take care of the medical needs. These were concerns raised by Senators when I gave the Statement; (iv) A comprehensive report on the disbursement of the latest programme, including details of disbursement under each programme broken done to counties so that each Senator knows what is happening in their specific county and constituency level; the names, criteria used to select the amount given and historical information on the disbursement and beneficiaries; (v) How the State department is planning to manage the transition of some of the beneficiary of the programme; orphans and vulnerable children; and (vi)What the department has done in creating databases of these special interest groups, how it manages to clean the data. For example, when an older person dies or a child aged 18. How they coordinate with county governments so that we do not have duplication of two levels of Government doing the same thing and getting credit or using it to account yet it is being done by another arm of Government. Also, the tentative dates for the next recruitment. Madam Deputy Speaker, with your kind permission, I invite Senators to the virtual meeting of the Senate Labour and Social Welfare Committee. Because of the spike in the numbers of COVID-19 - Even today at the Senate Business Committee Meeting - we discussed that we need to reduce physical engagements. We earlier had invited the Cabinet Secretary to a physical meeting here for the Senators to come and raise questions. However, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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