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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "and other social protection programmes for our country are wanting. As you know, I also have a statement asking a similar question for other social protection programmes that have been implemented haphazardly, if at all. Madam Temporary Speaker, we seem to be doing things with immediate reactions. We implement something and there seems to be no plan for continuation and sustainability of these things, therefore, causing more undesired consequences than they should be. While observing that the Inua Jamii Programme that was passed in Parliament is enacting the care and protection of older members of the society and that there is also the management information system that is being put in place, it is unfortunate that since 2017 no single person that has turned 70 years has been registered and there does not seem to be plans as per the Committee’s report of registering anybody else. This means that those turning 70 who may be even worse hit than the ones that are in the programme are going to be left out. This means that we are a country that takes care of certain people, but not others. This looks bad and I hope that there are plans to include all elderly persons. I am not also seeing much in the way of the Committee giving certain consequences for non-performance or correction of this. What I have observed since I got into Parliament is that social protection programmes, especially because they are programmes directed at the poor, are not taken so seriously. Perhaps because they are not so important or they not focused or that there are no consequences. How are we going to see things being corrected if at all there is need for correction? On the issue of ECDE, we know that this is a foundational programme. While we are happy that the Committee managed to secure certain increments, I actually could not help but wonder if that is the right way to do things. That a Committee goes and the Governor in all his philanthropy decides to increase. Is that the Kenya we want? Is it that there are no known systems? Is that a good or a bad thing? While congratulating the Committee, I was a bit saddened that this is how things are done in our counties. That we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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