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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": "was critical, but it is neither being looked at by county governments nor the national Government. If we can avail an arrangement where older people can have food, water and proper clothing in every sub-location, we would be doing much better than the arrangement of transferring Ksh2,000, which we are not even sure whether the elderly people use it on themselves. Two days ago, I was amazed when I learnt that chiefs and assistant chiefs were taking Ksh1,000 from the elderly persons whenever they went to pick money in the initial arrangement, where they were going to the post office in the markets. Why can we not use the structures that have worked instead of seeing money go to waste? Why can the national Government not be firm and decide that its point of development is at the constituency level, and we have all these functions coordinated there? This way, we will be able to reach the elderly people. I am trying to emphasise that we are learning much less from what we are doing, be it failing or succeeding. We are also not building on the success. We keep repeating the failures. The national Government should sit and reconsider exactly what point they will place development at the lower levels of Nairobi. If they do not do that, we will keep having this problem where somebody sends circulars for the identification of indigents, it is done wrongly, and you wait for circulars, but it does not work. Some of these Government departments we are talking about do not have the structures at the ground level. They rely on National Government Administrative Officers (NGAOs) who have their tricks of doing things wrongly. These are some of the things we really need to consider very seriously when we are legislating on issues to do with social protection. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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