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    "content": "establish their percentage and know whether the monies we are going to give them are sufficient. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other day the Prime Minister rolled out a plan to help people in this category, living in Nairobi. There is need to expand this programme to cover the whole country because elderly people live in all parts of the country. That way, elderly people in North Eastern, Coast and Nyanza Provinces, as well as those living in all other provinces of Kenya, aged 60 years and above, can enjoy this comfort from the Government. The Government must also consider engaging elderly people in our society. These people are a reservoir of knowledge, experience and patriotism that might even be lacking in the younger generations. They have it because they have seen it all. There is need, therefore, to organise them in the provisional settings and use them to resolve conflicts and mentor the younger generations. If we do not give them attention, or we fail to support them in meeting their nutritional and medical needs, we will lose a very important asset. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of these senior citizens can even come and sit in the Senate, if the expected new constitution provides for that organ. Some of them are retired Permanent Secretaries, retired Ambassadors, or even retired politicians, who can be re-utilised to play a very substantive role. So, we need to have a very deliberate policy of taking care of them in all ages. It is very apparent that there is a silent understanding between a child and his father: For the father to take care of the child when the child is young, and the child to take care of his father when the father is old. This is not stated anywhere. It is a very silent understanding. Everybody wishes the best for his parents. If your parent is old, you would want him to have very good medical care and live in a very good environment. The same should be for other elderly people in our society. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, without belabouring the point, I strongly support this policy. I urge the Minister to appear before us, so that we can enhance this policy and develop it into a Bill, so that he can bring it to the House for adoption. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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