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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hilary Kosgei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to congratulate my friend, Hon. Nzambia, for coming up with this important Motion which touches on the cash transfer for elderly people. At the outset, I want to state that I support it, but beyond the continuous registration, I ask the House to allocate resources to be availed to the old Kenyans who have been registered. When this programme was started, way back, it targeted the elderly poor who lived below one dollar a day. That is why you arrive at Ksh2,100 because the dollar at that time was Ksh70. When you multiply by 30, it comes to Ksh2,100. However, as we talk, the dollar is at Ksh120. We need to register the old Kenyans and increase resources to help them to live quality life. Therefore, it is also prudent that while we continue to register, we know that the dollar is now at Ksh120. Therefore, the cash transfer should be increased to Ksh3,600 on the minimum. This requires this House to collectively support the Departmental Committee on Social Protection to avail resources so that when the elderly Kenyans are registered, the resources find their way to the village where most of them are. As we speak, only 853,000 of them have been put on the programme against a target of four million elderly persons in the Republic of Kenya. The State Department for Social Protection in its Budget Policy Statement (BPS) intends to add this by a paltry 100,000 old persons. We ask this House to inject resources so that we can register even two million people into the programme. As we do that, we must also ask the ministry to invest in technology, so that our old people will stop queueing in the chiefs’ offices and assistant chiefs. Before they are paid, they are made to give a bribe so that they can get what is duly theirs. It is important for the ministry to invest in technology that can even update the data of those who have been registered. The system should remove those who have gone through natural attrition so that we remain with a specific number of the real people to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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