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    "id": 1558734,
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    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "applying for the benefits. It also provides for reviews and appeals against the decisions of the Board, the rights and obligations of beneficiaries, the consequences of abusing social protection benefits and the circumstances under which social protection benefits may be terminated or refunds made to the Board. This Part also provides for the review and indexation of social protection benefits and the establishment of a social protection registry. These are the key elements that are currently missing in disbursing resources to people we need to ring-fence as people under social protection obligations. It is important to provide eligibility criteria. Sometimes you go to the village and see a 60-year-old man who gets benefits and a 70-year-old man does not get yet the older one requires funds more than any other does and we ask ourselves about the criterion that picked one and over the other. Sometimes you see people who have retired and have resources, for example, enough to fund a pension, a farm, and everything that supports their life. However, they get the funds for wazees yet a person who does not have a pension does not get the funds. This is what we tend to cure in this Bill. Obligations and rights is one of the most important things I look at. Sometimes you see an old man who is supposed to be given money from the Inua Jamii Fund but does not have information. The money is not collected for a whole year so some crooks pick the money and use it. This is what we want to cure through this Bill. I wind up, I am asking Hon. Sylvanus Osoro to get prepared to second this Bill. Part IV of the Bill highlights offences. They include prohibition of obstruction… There is also prohibition of persons from giving false information, unlawful disclosures of information, fraud, and misappropriation of funds. Misappropriation of funds is one of the things that we suffer from. Sometimes this money is given but a percentage higher than what goes to the vulnerable people is used for administration. Some parts of this country do not get these funds because data has not been collected. This law will help every person who requires assistance in Changamwe to get the assistance; not the bourgeoisie there yet they get assistance. This is an important law. I urge this Parliament to support it to ensure the people of Suba North and every eligible Kenyan benefits. I can see Hon. Bensouda is happy with this law because it will help the people of Homa Bay to also be reached so that they do not say that Serikali has not reached them. I urge everybody, including people from the Leader of the Minority Party’s home, to get social protection. I urge everybody and every Member that this law is worth supporting, passing, and worth the name of this Parliament. I beg to move and request Hon. Silvanus Osoro, Member for Mugirango South and the Whip of the Majority Party, to second."
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