{"id":360153,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/360153/?format=json","text_counter":249,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":434,"legal_name":"James Nyikal","slug":"james-nyikal"},"content":"Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am not very good at catching the Speaker’s eye. I think I will learn. Hon. Members, I think this is an extremely important topic and we must thank the Mover. The issue of elderly persons- -- I have actually worked on it for three years. The numbers are getting larger. Just to give you a few figures, between 1989 to now, we have moved from a population of 1 million people of the age of over 65 years to now about 2 million. In another ten years, it will be about 2.6 million, approaching 3 million. Not only that, there is also a shift in the"}