Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1273179,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1273179/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 396,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Florence Bore",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for the two questions asked by Hon. Robert Ngui and Hon. Muchangi Karemba, my Chair of the Departmental Committee on Labour. Currently, we are paying 1,200,000 million people, and the money that we give them is Ksh17 billion. It is what the Government can afford. In this financial year, we are increasing the beneficiaries by 500,000. We had made a commitment during the Social Protection Week Conference that we are going to increase the number from 1.2 million to 2.5 million in two years. This year we are going to increase by 500,000. However, when I bring the Social Assistance Fund Bill to this House, my request is that let us pass it. If we have that Act in place, the Social Assistance Fund Bill, it will mean donors will come on board to support the Exchequer. We will pay everyone who is above 70 years. That is the only thing that we can do as a House; that you can support us to have the Bill in place. Hon. Robert Ngui, I think you mentioned something about teachers. Those who are paid under this Inua Jamii Programme are the unemployed. We do not pay people who get pension. It is only those who are vulnerable and cannot afford. Maybe he can repeat the question."
}