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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Masara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I think our gods are with us because this Parliament is going to pass a Bill that will help too many people. I want this House to remember the late Hon. Laboso Joyce. Hon. Millie assisted me to draft the Bill. She and I are undertaking PhD studies in the same line and we have been talking about this Bill. The Social Protection Bill is very important and I support it. I have worked on the Bill for the last seven years and it is the reason it is in this House today. It was supposed to go to the Third Reading. The beneficiaries of the Social Protection Bill are people who are really in need of our support as leaders. If I may give a brief to those who have not gone through this Bill, in Kenya today, the vulnerable members of society are benefiting. By the time the programme was started, they were being given Ksh2,000. At that time, a dollar was equivalent to Ksh100. Therefore, according to the UN ranking, anybody earning or living below US$2 a day is supposed to be supported. Sometime back, a dollar was equivalent to about Ksh160 but these people were still being given Ksh2,000. I support this Bill but on condition that we merge the two Bills because we do not want the Social Protection Bill to give people tokens. These tokens need to be managed; there needs to be a rationale on how monies are given to our vulnerable people in the society. In Section 2 of the Children Act, the objective of the Act is to cushion all persons against risks and contingencies throughout their life cycle, which is okay. It also seeks to build human capital capability and resilience of all persons and promote their well-being. It does not talk about how it will resonate well with the economic times, that is, when there is fluctuation 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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