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    "id": 1412844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Duncan Mathenge",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Going by the explanation given by the Cabinet Secretary, the means testing system is an algorithm that will be applied to an assessment done on households. An algorithm is blind to realities and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is insensitive to real life. Let me give an example of an elderly lady in Nyeri known as Mama Waziri, who is about 87 years old. She lives in a stone house with corrugated iron sheets, she is supplied with piped water and has a television set. She has been a widow for the last 27 years. At any one time when we are distributing relief food in Ruringu Muslim village, she is always number one on the list. How will this algorithm capture the reality of Mama Waziri's life despite the appearance of her dwelling? Secondly, is this 2.75 per cent payment from the income of households that are not in employment annually in advance against the 2.75 per cent deductions for people who have a payslip? Is this not an unfair administration action? Where you are charging the same percentage but one set of residents in this country has to pay monthly deductions and another one has to pay annually. That is discrimination in my view, which is expressly prohibited by our Constitution."
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