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    "id": 1558928,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. This is a very serious case because there are very many vulnerable people out there. When we go to the streets, we see vulnerable people such as orphans, children born and thrown to the streets, the disabled, and the jobless. When I drive or walk around the streets, I wonder if this is the Kenya I was born in and if it is the country I am supposed to be a part of the leadership. As a Parliament, we should pass this Bill and act on it as soon as yesterday, not tomorrow. It is very shameful that the vulnerable are out there. When you walk on the streets, you hardly do ten metres from one group to another before meeting the vulnerable. We should do something about it. I suggest that once we pass this Bill, it should come to the Committee of the whole House so that we get the way forward. One suggestion is that we direct the Cabinet to form a department specifically to deal with this vulnerable group since they are our brothers and sisters; blood relations. I have had the chance to travel to Denmark and Poland. Once we pass this Bill, we should benchmark and see how these two countries dealt with the vulnerable groups. They set up a department that specifically deals with this kind of issue. We are not too far from it. Therefore, we should deal with this case by benchmarking. Secondly, it is on the infrastructure we are currently dealing with in our respective constituencies and areas where we represent the people. Infrastructure is very important. For example, in Nairobi, a friend mentioned Mathare where people live in very bad conditions. These are Kenyans like us. We cannot exclude ourselves from this group. Yesterday, I could not believe it when a family was smashed by stones that dropped from a cliff as it rained. We have a problem, and we should do something by, at least, dealing with the infrastructure by looking at the living standards of our people because they are with us. Thirdly, we should also look at the benefits that are to be accrued by setting up a department. It should be spread across all the 290 constituencies so that each constituency can deal with cases of disabilities, orphans, and the aged who do not know what to do, so that money can be transferred to these families. From my own observation without pointing a finger at any individual, you will be shocked that the cash transfer money is part of the corruption in this country. Money is not being transferred properly. Once in a while a family gets Ksh2,000 which is good enough, but sometimes that money never reaches the intended recipients. You find somebody signed off and says they transferred the money, yet it was not transferred to the intended recipients. I urge the House to pass this Bill and set up a department that can specifically deal with this issue as has been mentioned. It should list how people have benefited, who the beneficiaries are, and how we can go about it in terms of infrastructure. 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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