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    "speaker_name": "he Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
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    "content": "Affairs, we were in a session where she brought up a similar question concerning these victims. Let me repeat that we have not received any information or eligibility criteria for enrollment into the Inua Jamii Programme, and a list of victims we can onboard. The possibility of including the survivors in the Social Assistance Programme is very high. The State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizens Affairs within the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection implements three social assistance programmes. One is the Inua Jamii Programme, which targets older citizens aged over 70 years and above, poor households taking care of persons with severe disability, and orphans and vulnerable children. When you look at the older persons, there is an older person's cash transfer. As you know, our President directed that before his salary and the salary of Cabinet Secretaries and Public servants are paid, the money is paid to our Inua Jamii recipients. One must be above 70 years old and have a Kenyan national ID to qualify for the older person's cash transfer, and should have a caregiver with a valid Kenyan national identification card and must not be in any Government pension to avoid double paying. Now when it comes to orphans and vulnerable children cash transfer programmes, any Kenyan household with any one or more of the older persons or children, orphans and vulnerable children aged between 0 and 17 years, or basically 0.1 and 17 years is a permanent member. It also includes a household with a caregiver who is chronically ill and unable to perform his or her duties, and lastly a household not benefiting from similar social assistance programmes. For both people, severe disability cash transfer programmes are meant for a poor household with a person with a severe disability who requires 24-hour care, a household not enrolled in a similar programme, and a beneficiary who is a Kenyan citizen. I think Sen. Kavindu Muthama will agree with me, that for the victims of the 1998 National United States Embassy bombing survivors to be included, they should meet the criteria that have been presented above. I would also like to point out that this case happened over 18 years now. If there are children who were affected or were left behind at that time, they are now over 18 years. Therefore, they do not qualify at this particular time for any of the programmes because they are above the limit of age given by the law. I submit."
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