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"speaker_name": "Kipipiri, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Wanjiku Muhia",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I want to support this Motion. I want to first start by congratulating the Member for bringing this Motion to the House. This is timely since this House has created the Social Protection Committee. Those aged people are very special and a delicate group that needs special attention accorded to them. It is time that this House relooks at the population versus the age. When we identify them at the age of 65, the numbers will be so huge such that we cannot increase the amount, which is now Ksh2,000. We may opt to increase the age bracket to about 70 years so that we are able to increase the amount. Honestly speaking, with the current economic situation, Ksh2,000 per month is quite minimal. This House, through the Special Protection Committee, needs to relook at the age versus the population and come up with a solution. We need to agree on the correct age that we can adopt. We should also look at the budget and, as much as we fight for our roads, water, electricity and all other social amenities, we should also look at this programme with the seriousness it deserves and allocate a budget that would be enough for that. The big animal on this matter is the disbursement of those funds. If you go to the constituencies, you will find a 100-year-old man seated in a corner in a bank somewhere waiting to withdraw Ksh2,000, and because the fingerprints are not able to show, he has to wait there. I can say that this money is not distributed very smoothly. I think this House has to guide the country and the Ministry by bringing and developing better means on how that money can be disbursed. The country can use the mobile money transfer system or heavily invest in it once and for all. We can even invest or purchase small mobile phones or find out how that money can reach the aged at their homesteads instead of them travelling long distances."
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