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    "id": 1218080,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1218080/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " I want to inform Members of the responsibility that the elderly in this country are facing. Most of them take care of grandchildren who are abandoned by their children, and who are either jobless, are in towns or cities looking for how to fend for themselves; or orphans whose parents passed on because of various deseases such as HIV/AIDS; and children left to them by young people who are living in the slums and are trying to survive. Lack of housing is another problem that is facing the elderly. Many of the elderly that I have visited in the villages across the country – whether in Baringo, Turkana or Siaya – do not have shelter. This is happening when we know that Government functionaries like the presidency live in opulence. If you see the kind of life that they live and the resources that the Government has availed to themselves - officers and Ministers - it is outrageous. We cannot afford to have a luxurious Government like the one we have when many of our poor people in the villages cannot afford basic needs like meals and water. This House, therefore, must act by ensuring that the next Budget must accommodate funds that would be sent to the elderly across the country. Lastly, the continuous registration of the elderly is something that we do not need to remind a serious Government…"
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