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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka-Nithi County, TSP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Susan Ngugi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Social Protection, where Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba presented this Bill in detail. I understand what it is all about. It will assist us, especially the women's representatives, who deal with affirmative action groups like the elderly. We wish they could be treated like any other special group in the village. We have State departments that take care of children and youth. We also want to see State departments dealing with elderly persons. Officers in those offices should help us handle those senior citizens. We are all aware that the elderly are the custodians of indigenous knowledge. Sometimes, I helplessly look at them when they are being buried with their knowledge. Some of them die because there is no one to protect them. We thank God for Article 57 of the Constitution, which provides for the protection of the elderly. The Bill should provide for studies on the elderly. Universities and other institutions of higher learning have paediatric and gynaecology departments. They should also have gerontology departments, where students can be taught how to deal with the elderly."
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