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    "id": 1105652,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I oppose it. If you look at the genesis of the Social Assistance Bill, which is being repealed by this Bill of 2020, it was enacted to implement Article 43(1)(e) of the Constitution which guarantees the rights to social securities as one of the economic and social rights. I agree with some of the other speakers that this is a backward step. It removes an important step that we had made in implementing some of the rights in our Constitution of which the Social Assistance Act No. 24 of 2013 had provided. The Act provides for rendering of social assistance to vulnerable persons and establishes the National Social Assistance Authority to identify and provide social assistance to persons in need. If you look at the composition of our country, this is a country with one of the biggest disparities between the rich and the poor. Therefore, unlike some of the wealthy countries or middle-income countries that are able to provide for their citizens, we have a huge number of people who have no social network, no protection whatsoever, and have not been provided with The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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