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    "id": 1197800,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "deserve to be given honorarium or a lump sum because of the services they offered to this country. This issue is long overdue. On several occasions, we have met the former councilors in Nandi County. We have also met officials and representatives of the former councillors across the country. We met last when Gov. Sakaja, then a Senator, was the Chair of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and I was a Member. Most of them are frail and sick. They feel that they are not recognised. Sen. Sifuna has said that we celebrate people who are already dead and pontificate them when they are gone. We should recognize them when they are still alive. Let us stop going to their funerals and saying that the Government should have paid them or given them pension. As I conclude, we need to provide them with a medical cover even as we give them money in lump sum. The President talked about Universal Health Coverage (UHC), because most of them are old, frail and sickly and they need money. Secondly, we must find a way of recognising those in our towns and city centres. What does it take to name a street or road after them? After all, they worked for this country, but they did not have mileage allowances and car grants then, but they helped in establishing the devolved units that we have today. We have Nandi County because of the former Nandi County Council. The same applies to other counties such as Bomet and Kericho among others. As a Senate, we must put our best foot forward. I hope the incoming nominee in charge of the National Treasury and Planning, Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u, is following this because the current Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Ukur Yatani, took us in circles. I hope the incoming CS will be magnanimous enough and release the money. The National Assembly is likely to approve all the nominees. Therefore, they must implement the resolutions that we pass. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I congratulate Sen. Wambua and wish him well. I hope this matter shall be brought to conclusion during our time here. I thank you."
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