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    "id": 360121,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Much obliged hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to the many voices that have talked about this Motion. First of all, we must recognize the elderly people as having contributed immensely to our economy during their productive years. When it comes to their twilight years, it is the business of the society called Kenya to take care of them. In that regard, therefore, I want to add another angle to this Motion. That it is our obligation as Kenyans to give social protection to the elderly of this society. We are aware that there is some stipend that had been passed in this august House that is supposed to be paid to the elderly. For a long time, we have been told it is a pilot project. It is the highest form of discrimination to pay a section of the elderly population while denying another section that kind of privilege. I want to urge the Government of the day that when it finally presents its budget here, to ensure that it takes stock of all the elderly people in this country. It should present a budget that is able to take care of them so that they can live decently like the Kenyans they were when they were in their productive years. The kind of change that Kshs3,000 can bring to the lifestyle of an elderly person is amazing. If an elderly man is sure that, at the end of the month, he is able to get Kshs.3000 and spend it, he or she will be okay. He or she can walk into a shop and ask for sugar in the belief that, at the end of the month, he will pay for it."
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