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    "id": 1219225,
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    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdul Haro",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I take this opportunity to thank the Hon. Member for Kilome, Hon. Nzambia, for this timely Motion on continuous registration of elderly persons for the cash transfers. The cash transfer programme for the elderly persons was first mooted around 2007. Initially, it started with three counties – Thika, Nyando and Busia. It subsequently expanded and has become a countrywide thing, which is good. The elderly persons are people who have served this country in many capacities – farmers, leaders, chiefs, teachers and in other capacities – but after retirement, most of them found themselves in extreme poverty. Some of them cannot even afford food or health services. Therefore, it is a good thing for the elderly persons’ cash transfer programme to continue. We had targeted 4.4 million Kenyans to have been registered by now but unfortunately, because of lack of that continuous registration, we have only reached 852,000 elderly persons. The last time this registration was done was in 2016 and that is why this Motion is very timely. We should pass it so as to have a continuous registration of elderly persons. Luckily, the population of these elderly persons is also increasing every year because of our improved healthcare. Not many people are dying nowadays. People are living to a very late age and, therefore, this continuous registration will be a very good thing so that we can support these persons to cater for their healthcare, buy food and meet other needs. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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