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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Githunguri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": "Elderly persons in Kenya have been registered in various Government platforms where they are supposed to be provided for through monthly stipends. However, the registration process has been discriminative because the people entrusted with that responsibility are not guided by any legal framework. They do not even have a formal way of keeping their database. It is in this regard that we propose the establishment of a national body to be called National Council for the Elderly People of Kenya. The Bill seeks to provide a legal framework within which the council will carry out registration of elderly people and ensure that there is accountability and transparency when it comes to dissemination of information and training of elderly people. When it comes to dissemination of information, it is important to undertake training of elderly people by informing them on Government programmes to ensure that accountability of Government resources has been taken care of. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the youth of Kenya have a council. So, do people living with disabilities. We have councils for specific categories of people. We, however, do not have a council for the elderly. We need an advisory and management council that can prepare budgets so that we know the amount of money that is required for elderly persons living with diabetes and hypertension, and even old parents who require other personal care needs. It is in this regard that I decided to come up with this Bill. I am forever grateful to this House, and more so, to the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Protection headed by Hon. Alice Wambui Ng’ang’a for the immense support that I received as I struggled to develop this Bill. I am keen to note that we all require this Bill because we are all potential subjects and victims of old age. With those remarks, I beg to move."
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