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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, how can a 100-year-old man even know or conceptualise an election? This election was to spearhead their matters. I asked my Deputy County Commissioner to call off those meetings and plan them afresh because ideally, they would still elect caregivers. So, it beats the logic that the caregivers will be elected and yet, they came with their old parents. Why are we making our old parents struggle? At their age, some have impaired hearing, while others have impaired vision. Some of them came by means of bodaboda . I witnessed a situation where a boda boda carrying one old woman was unable to cross a small trench, and she fell off the motorbike. I witnessed another who collapsed and fainted because she was hungry. I had to stop all my programmes on bursaries and organise for energy drinks and something for those people to eat because they had come from long distances. I want, through this Motion to this Ministry, to order that even if they do not have the capacity, they should have humane eyes. They cannot conduct meetings for the old for purported elections while the old cannot see, hear or even understand what the election is all about. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we know the administrations are key pillars in this country and when those kinds of structures are to be administered, it is paramount that the Ministry, through their directorate and their officers, involve the local administrators like the chiefs, assistant chiefs and the Assistant County Commissioners, because those are the people who will give them ideas. Directors are seated here in Nairobi and they give guidelines and timelines. When I enquired further, I was informed that this process must end by Wednesday and, therefore, they cannot stop. Another meeting was happening in another location and they have to travel to the ward level, not even at the sub-location level. So, in essence, I am saying that there is a need for capacity building and for the directors in Nairobi to understand the ground, that those are old people who cannot travel or vote, but have caregivers who can handle the matter on their behalf."
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