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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Dr.) Alfred Mutua): Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to give an emphatic, yes. It does not matter whether you got injured during the 1988 bomb blast, or you were injured afterwards. If you are severely disabled in our country, you deserve to be in this programme. It is not as comprehensive as it should be, and I will work on it. On the second point, I agree with you that we need to get these teams together. I am directing my Principal Secretary not to wait, but to organize a meeting, to meet with the leadership, so that we can also be proactive and get the list, and working closely with you to enable this to be done. Whether you are below 70 years or above and you are disabled, you qualify automatically, and there is a criteria of how you are tested at the hospital, and qualify. I wanted to add something that may be of interest to the House. Currently, most members, you are aware, people go in the morning to pick up their money from banks or agents. They wake up in the morning, get a boda boda or car and go a long distance, line up the whole day, waiting to receive their money, which is not fair. His Excellency the President has been very clear about providing justice. You do not have somebody spending Kshs500 to go somewhere, spend another Kshs200 to eat, and then you are giving them Kshs2,000. Already the money is gone. We want to roll out a programme so that by the 1st of December, 2024, we are going to ensure that now all the money will be transferred to the phones or designated M- Pesa or other accounts directly of the recipients so that they do not have to leave the comfort of their homes, spend their money, and wait for a whole day to receive the money. We have to be a caring people and we are going to ensure that that is implemented."
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