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    "id": 1105601,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1105601/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13168,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Keter",
        "slug": "gideon-keter"
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    "content": "The Kshs30 billion is not chicken change. It is a lot of money that needs a board to properly manage it. If we can have a State corporation like the Anti- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) receiving Kshs200 million from the Exchequer, why can we not have a management Authority, board or State corporation managing Kshs30 billion? This Fund is important because it assists the vulnerable members of our society and older persons. For instance, our cultural ties have been severed by civilisation and westernisation. Most of our people live in urban centres and they have left our older persons in rural areas suffering. Some of them are sickly and go without food and drugs. Therefore, this Bill is very important. This Bill was brought by the late Hon. Joyce Laboso, may her soul rest in eternal peace. She considered the vulnerable members of our society because all of us can never be equal. At that time, I was in the National Council for Persons with Disability. When the request to have an input on who should benefit from the Fund as the Council for Persons with Disability came, we said that it was not all persons with disability because we do not want persons with disability to be supplicants seeking favours. We need opportunities and not sympathy. We said the other categories of persons with disability whom we can empower and educate can benefit from other funds, but those who will benefit from the Social Assistance Fund are those who are severely disabled."
}