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    "id": 1558974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I disagree with Hon.Tandaza. When he talks about some people getting more than others, that will be a leeway for corruption. On the Ksh2,000 that they get, the indigents should be getting more than Ksh5,000. That money should be pegged on inflation rate from the first time I joined Parliament in 2013; the 11th Parliament. We need to move the registration away. When people were being registered in my constituency during the Financial Year 2014/2015, there was a lady who was brought in a Mercedes Benz to register to get the Ksh2,000. It was a shame that at the end of the day she was registered. She was old but she was from a well-to-do family. She did not need that money to go to her account. We need to narrow down the registration. In the 12th Parliament, I went to the office of the Permanent Secretary (PS) for the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Mr. Marwa to ask for a list of the people who get the Ksh2,000. You may not believe it but I waited for two years and I never got the list. I went there five times to get the list so that I could know the people who were getting the money. There is no transparency in the register of the people who get the money. Money goes to the banks and sometimes we are told that money has not come for three months. Hon. Temporary Speaker, when the elderly people go to the bank for their money, they are told that it has not been disbursed. However, we are told in Parliament that the money has been disbursed. Who takes that money? That is what we need to be told. If this Bill will streamline that situation, we need to know how to devolve it. The whole constituency cannot be told to go to one place to collect the money. Imagine an old person on a motorcycle – which is sometimes an unsafe ride – risking falling during the rainy season. How do they make it to the station where the money is being disbursed? In my constituency, payments are mostly done at primary schools or outside Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) branch premises. We need a board to be appointed to streamline how people get paid this money. There are many people 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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