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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is sometimes painful for a country like ours in this region, which is expected to play a leading role in most of these activities, to begin to learn from countries that have just emerged from civil wars and difficulties associated with conflict. So, I wish the Minister could also invite his counterpart in Rwanda to understand how they have done it successfully there. Rwanda is a case study to look at very carefully. On the issue of the age bracket, even though it is universally accepted that the entry point is 60 years, in Kenya, we have people who retire at the age of 60 years. It is imagined that at the age of 60 years, one is still strong. So, there is a kind of contradiction in this case. Initially, the retirement age in Kenya was 55 years but the Government has since reviewed it to 60 years. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this Policy Paper, the Minister is saying that if you reach 60 years you are old, and that you cannot work and yet the Government has pushed the retirement age to the level of people who are supposed to benefit from this kind of scheme. So, it looks like there is some contradiction. However, I wish that the Government fast-tracks this policy and brings a Bill for this House for discussion because the elderly people in society have got substantial challenges. I hope that as the Ministry brings the Bill to Parliament, it will undertake a study in all the provinces in the country and do a mapping of the actual number of older people above the age of 60 years. We need to have that data through the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030, so that as we discuss the Bill, we will be able to understand what number of the Kenyan citizenry we are talking about. We need to"
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