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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
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    "content": "their early days. This includes giving them medals, recognising them as veterans and all kinds of adorations to recognise their previous contributions to the welfare of the society. In Kenya, as we speak, the aged are not given priority because the Government does not have a policy for them. They are not given anything else apart from the Ksh2,000 stipend per month, which rarely reaches all of them. My mother died at the age of 89. She had registered for the Ksh2,000 stipend but never received it until she went to the grave. I am just giving you an example. In the village, many do not get that stipend. Many intermediaries and brokers between the Government and the banks where this money is channelled get in between, and the money does not reach the right people. A certain percentage, however, gets it. In my view, the Government should be serious when it is addressing the issues of the aged. If you go around the country now, you will find many organisations, particularly individuals, coming up with homes for the aged to take care of them. The society has now changed. It is no longer like the ordinary African society where the young ones were cared for by the aged with the hope of reciprocating at a particular time of age where they had to now feed, light fire and take care of the aged. Things have now changed. These days, given a chance, the youth can even dispose of the property of the aged and leave them desperate and destitute. This Bill is timely, and it is my prayer that when it comes to implementing it, we shall consider homes that are being established. Where do the aged go at a particular time when they have nobody to take care of them in their homes, and they cannot feed themselves? Where do they go when they are abandoned in the rural areas by their siblings who move to urban areas? With those few remarks, I support."
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