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    "id": 382191,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support the Motion. But I also want to look at it at the level of the institutions that deal with compensation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya is a very interesting country, where I think the unclaimed assets amounts to a lot of billions of shillings. I do not think that, as Kenyans, we really know the figure. Let us take the example of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and look at the poverty level of many children whose parents used to make contributions to the NSSF. To date, most of them are unable to go to school or even to the NSSF and try to claim whatever their parents left when they passed on. When you look at the trustees and how they deal with children today, it is also a very sad story. Indeed, today those who benefit more from what the parents contributed are the trustees rather than the families of the contributors. Today, many women who are widows languish in poverty, not because they do not have assets, but because the institutions that are supposed to even name the assets and the lawyers, have decided to use the same resources for their own benefit. Therefore, when we talk of compensation, we need to, first, ask ourselves: What is the structure? First, you will have to hire a lawyer. Therefore, you will pay the lawyer and before you even get your money, the lawyer will go with three-quarters of the money. The family will just get a quarter of what is being compensated. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, look at the recent case of Mau Mau. The lawyers will walk away with more than Kshs800 million and yet, the person---"
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