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    "id": 1347710,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1347710/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": " As I keep on saying, I am grateful to Hon. Wamuchomba for saying so in this Bill; that, this right be entrenched in law. When King David was very old, his caretakers looked for every cure for him and found remarriage the only option. He was then given a young bride to look after him. That should be a right and it should not be seen as something that the family can dictate to someone. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I missed the discussion on the population policy in Kenya. It is now clear that in this country, we are still advantaged that our younger people are more than the older people. When it gets to a situation where the older people are more, like in Europe, it will complicate our situation. Because we still have that advantage, it is good to entrench it in our laws; that society, even beyond Government, has a responsibility to protect its older people. Young people must look after the older people. There must be a way to compel sons and daughters who do not want to look after their old people to suffer the same consequences under the law, as the people who neglect their children – so that if you neglect your elders, you receive the same punishment as someone who neglected their children. This law is very good for our social protection. It is a recognition that if all of us are praying for many years on earth, that one day we shall all get old and benefit from this law. I commend it to the House. It is a good law. Let us support it. With those remarks, I support."
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