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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Mulanya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This Bill is very timely. It is one of the Bills that will protect vulnerable members of our society. It will ensure that the vulnerable people realise the provisions of Article 43 of the Constitution on economic and social rights. Article 43 of the Constitution provides that each and every Kenyan has the right to freedom from hunger. Is this a reality when in our constituencies? Is each and every Kenyan free from hunger? There are elderly people who cannot even tend to their farms. They have no children, anybody to support them or have food on their table. Moreover, there is no means by which the Government can come in and help them. The Government has tried through the Inua Jamii Programme, but it did not mop up all vulnerable members of our society. There are people with disabilities. In Nambale, there is a family with five disabled children. None of them has even a wheelchair. This Bill will create a register of all vulnerable members of our society so that it is easy to identify and reach out to them wherever they are. They should feel happy like other Kenyans. I have gone through Clause 28 which lists the people and groups that require social protection. They include orphans, older members of society, persons with disability, persons in extreme poverty and persons affected by shocks. A father and a mother may die and leave children behind. The older child of such a family takes up the responsibility of taking care of their younger siblings. With this kind of legislation, it will be very easy to identify such people, so that the orphans can be given social protection by the Government instead of leaving the burden to an equally weaker member of the family. There have been complaints about the criterion of identifying beneficiaries of the Inua Jamii Programme. This Bill provides for any vulnerable member of society and not captured in the register to apply to the board for review. If the board declines registration, the person has a right to move to the High Court on appeal. These are very comprehensive provisions that will ensure that there is no favouritism in the selection of beneficiaries of the programme."
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