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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "The other reason I support this Bill is because there is another cohort in our society. The Mover of the Bill has talked about the urban poor. I would like to expound on that. I live next to a sub-county headquarters, which is a peri-urban place in Ndhiwa Town. As urban areas sprout and as a number of people move there, some of them go to look for jobs and means of livelihood, but at the end of it, they do not get. Most of the time, I cry for a number of women because I meet them each time I go home. There are a number of women who go to live in urban centres in search of some work and means of livelihood. Since jobs are not forthcoming, they join the growing population of the urban poor. As we talk about this Social Protection Bill (National Assembly Bills No.12 of 2025), as a country, we must think about that cohort. I have often related a story in that same town where I came face to face with a number of young girls who had gone to do daily chores of cleaning houses somewhere I had visited. My heart was broken on that particular day. When their host decided to serve them with a cup of tea after they had finished the work they were doing and they were given lunch, those women were hesitant to eat that food. Their reason was that there was no way they would be given breakfast and take lunch at the same time. They opted to keep that food, so that they take it home to their children. That tells us that in this country, there is a cohort of people that we must pay attention to. It is on that basis that I second this Bill. I want to emphasis that the Board that will be put in place must widen the scope and identify different cohorts of people that we need to take care of as a country. Another group that comes to my mind in the communities that we live in are parents. We have those who are single or terminally ill and are bed-ridden. Some of them have young children who cannot look after themselves. I often encounter that group of people when I am in my home in the village. When you walk around, you find mothers who are terminally ill, but they have children who cannot fend for themselves. Those are the groups we must focus on. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I second this Bill, there are also points of interest that finally support or serve these people that I have talked about. These are our schools and hospitals. Even though they are entities on their own, they are convergent points that serve those vulnerable groups. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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