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"speaker_name": "Kericho County, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Kemei",
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"content": "The elderly people have been discriminated against in many occasions. At the moment, our generation does not remember and does not know the values that we knew when we were young and even now. That should you see an elderly person coming forth and you are seated, you move aside and stand so that he or she can sit. But for our people, that is not the case. I would want to say that this Bill will not discriminate them. When it comes to matters of health, when you go to a hospital, a 17-year-old is in the same ward with a 65 or 70-year-old... That is not the best thing, and I believe this Bill will take care of that. Elderly people at the moment receive a stipend, and I thank the Government for making it possible for the elderly people to get their stipend every month. However, the Ksh2,000 is still very low. I plead that, as things improve, this amount needs to be increased and to make sure that all the elderly persons are registered and supported. This will also ease the dependency The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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