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    "id": 1373396,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1373396/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hilary Kosgei",
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    "content": "It is time that this House approved this Bill so that it proceeds to the Third Reading stage. As we start the budget-making process, this specific Bill should be entrenched as law so that beginning with the supplementary budget that is coming, our village elders can be catered for and recognised. I insist that they must be recognised in law. The Kenya Kwanza Government is a good government. We have registered all the senior citizens who are above 70 years in the Inua Jamii Programme. To ensure that no other government in future can come into office and abolish this programme, we must entrench it in the law and agree on the stipend as proposed by Hon. Malulu Injendi. All the village elders will be sorted. These are the people who organise Harambee meetings. They mobilise people to attend Harambee meetings for sick people who do not have National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) cards. The proposed stipend will enable them to pay for their social insurance cards going forward. Without saying a lot, this is a Bill whose time has come. It must be passed by this House during this Session so that the village elders can be sorted. With those few remarks, I beg to support. 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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