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    "id": 1111261,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have been waiting patiently for this opportunity. This ratification is long overdue because times are changing and the youths do not respect the older people. So, we should enhance this because I know for sure, in the last Parliament, we passed that all buildings must have provision for disabled people. I have gone round and in some areas this provision has not been taken care of. The older people have been neglected and I want to agree with the previous speaker on the delayed cash transfer to our people. Most of them are registered and I think this Committee should fast-track this. When I go round, people keep asking me what I am doing because they have not received their money. Some of these people have worked well and religiously, yet they have not been paid. Therefore, the Committee concerned should fast-track this, so that the elderly are paid because it is part of what we do here. Apart from that, I am not sure, but I am told that in some tribes in Africa, disabled children are actually killed at birth. I do not know where, but I am told that this happens. It is very unfortunate. The fact is that older people are not taken care of particularly with the generation that is changing. Let us have that coming out. You can even go out to the streets in tow and there is no provision for elderly people in the transport sector. I have tried. I got into a vehicle in Eldoret going to Kitale and realised that the crew discriminate against older people. That, again, must come out very clearly so that elderly people of 80 or more years can be accorded the respect that is due to them. It is just common sense. There are no provisions for the elderly and the disabled in some passenger service vehicles. I appreciate that the rights of the elderly and the disabled people come out very clearly in this Protocol, and its ratification is long overdue. Therefore, I support it. Whoever is responsible or the Committee in charge of this should fast-track it so that it is implemented to accord respect to the disabled and the elderly people in this country. With those remarks, I support."
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