Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1186773,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1186773/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 120,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. Out of the many Statements that Sen. (Dr.) Murango has said, one that has struck me is on the Older Persons Cash Transfer (OPCT). I commend because he is learning very fast and becoming very industrious. Secondly, it is very unfortunate because we all at some point shall get old. We will need the Government to take care of us except when you are a pensioner. It is very sad that the registration of older persons for OPCT is done every three years. It should be done even monthly because people grow old. It does not mean that people retire and get to the age that is required only after three years. I asked this question during the last session of Senate before we adjourned for elections. Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at the life expectancy, we should in fact lower the age of registering under the older OPCT programme to 60 years. Even the Bible talks about 70-80 or is it 60-70 years? How do your then register somebody who is 70 years and above? The retirement age of any person is 60 years. In fact, it should be lowered to 55- 60 years. Number three, these are old men. When you go to towns like Kapsabet, Eldoret, Vihiga and Kilifi, you will find wazee from all those small villages boarding Matatus all the way to towns. They are old and cannot even cross the road. They are illiterate and in poor health. We then allow them to sit on the verandahs to be taken advantage by the vagabonds in the cities and centers. The Ministries of National Treasury and Planning and Labor and Social Welfare, must be creative enough to ensure that they send money through Mpesa to those wazees wherever they are in the village at their convenience. This is so that they do not need to travel using matatus. Some of them are sick and do not have support systems. Finally, the commercial banks - I do not want to name them - are taking advantage. For example, why would you give that work to a certain commercial bank that does not have an agent up to the lowest small center for example, in Chepteruai Center in Mosop Sub County or Mwombo a furthest corner in Tindiret Sub County or somewhere in Kilifi? Why would we give that work to a bank that does not have even one or two branches in Kapsabet town which is the county headquarters of Nandi County? To the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, let us use Mpesa . I know some people might complain that they are being blacklisted through Credit Revenue Bureau (CRB). There is an amnesty from the Government up to early next year. This is in fact mercy that is only given once in a lifetime."
}