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    "id": 327709,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the Bill. Just today in the news, somebody buried a 95 year old woman alive because she was too poor and a headache to the family. It cannot be worse than that in any part of the world. Looking at where we sit in this wonderful Chamber here, and I invite the Members to look at the Mosaics on the walls of all the regions from Mt. Kenya to the Coast, they show poverty. In some of the areas, people live in areas that are defined by the United Nations as conditions that limit even their human dignity. We may talk of lack of money. It is true that we lack money. During the former President’s Moi Budget and I am in KANU and so I knew the Budget then, it was only Kshs240 billion. Today, the Minister for Finance says that they are losing 30 per cent of the Kshs1.5 trillion. This works out to be about Kshs300 billion, which is going through looters. That is higher than the entire KANU Budget. We can do it. We can afford US$1 or US$2 for the poor through a system that will ensure that all the Kenyan citizens are all the vulnerable that are defined in this Bill are truly taken care of. We cannot sit here and pretend. I very strongly wish to thank the designers of this Chamber for making sure that every time we sit here and debate, we shall always be faced with these Mosaics to remind us that some people live in those hard conditions. Famine relief should now go to this Authority once established, so that we do not have it becoming a source of enriching a few, but an organization that is going to be entrusted with the administration of that plastic card. We have 30 million Kenyans today with mobile phones. Even if it means supplying mobile phones to those poor Kenyans, so that they can access the M-pesa system or any other system, we should do that. With those few remarks, I support."
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