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    "id": 1163468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "County governments must allocate money to protect their elderly. This money can be incorporated in the county budget. If 35 per cent of the national revenue goes to county governments as proposed in the Senate, why then should county governments not set aside some funds to assist the elderly people? Some countries have programmes for the elderly. Medication and recreation are free to the elderly because they are paid by the Government. That is why the elderly live long in those countries. The elderly live long when they have recreational facilities, go through physiotherapy and so on. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the elderly also need capacity building for them to know their rights. Some of them might not even know that they are covered by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). There is need to inter-twine the Older Persons Cash Transfer (OPCT) programme and NHIF, so that the elderly age with grace. As the Senate, we have a mandate to protect all the citizens of this country, especially the vulnerable ones like the elderly. I encourage Sen. Nyamunga to come up with a Bill to speak to this before Senate goes on recess, so that it is enshrined in law. Even for this to be executed, there is need to have a law. When it becomes the law of the land, it will be followed to the letter. We also need to sanction counties that flout the law on the elderly. As the Senate, we should not abdicate our mandate of coming up with a framework. The framework will ensure that the elderly are taken care of so that they age gracefully. We need blessings from them and we must appreciate them for the work they did to this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Motion should be upgraded into a Bill. If we do so, Sen. Nyamunga’s dream will comes to fruition. I believe and hope that my fellow Senators will support this Motion for it to see the light of day. I beg to second."
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