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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I conclude my remarks, I am alive to the fact that the Prime Minister only last week announced that the Government has introduced a special social welfare fund to the tune of around Kshs600 million and he came out clearly that this money will be paid out to people who live in slum areas. He told us that they will be starting with Kibera slum, Korogocho slum and then some slums in Mombasa and Kisumu. This programme could very well be matched with this one because the real deserving people, even in those slums, are the elderly people. It will be wrong for us to open up social welfare to the youth who are in their prime age of working. If we do that, we will have the American example where you get a lot of young energetic people just sitting idle. They have refused to work because they know they will live on welfare. Whereas people who are in employment might consider a payoff of Kshs1, 500 to be too little, there are some youth who would consider that amount of money to be a lot and, therefore, just sit back and refuse to work. It is because of that point that I would like to appeal to the Government to come out clearly and tell us the criteria that was used to start off with those particular slums. After all, if you go to certain places in this country, say, Kakamega and Kisii--- Because of the high population density in those rural areas, they are actually the equivalent of slum dwellings. So, if there is money meant for slums, then the densely populated rural areas should also benefit from it."
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