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    "id": 1098253,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1098253/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 827,
        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Once identified, as the Petition has raised, the mode of disbursement--- For example, using KCB in my county, there are only two branches in Marsabit and Moyale. We have centres as far as 500 to 600 kilometres from those branches. Somebody in Ileret who has been identified to benefit has to travel those kilometres to get that money. It does not cover the transport to that place. We have advancement in technology where Kenyans have taken up the use of mobile money transfer. Why is it not being used, yet that is the easiest way to reach Kenyans? Nowadays, network coverage even in those remote areas is almost 100 per cent. With that kind of investment, it does not assist in any way that we are still insisting that the most vulnerable members of this community still travel kilometres to go and collect the monies that are given. It even creates more problems to that individual. If they get that money directly, they will improve their livelihoods. Now they will incur more costs and trouble to even go and access that money. What the Petition has raised is very pertinent and we need to have a serious engagement with the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Labour and Social Protection on this."
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