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    "content": "person who has been working for the Government with a good salary but when you go to the stipend, he is also there. The other issue is that the Government has done well. There is a small stipend that goes to the old persons but like one Senator said, besides requiring Kshs2,000 which can cater for their food and clothing, there is also the issue of diseases and so on. We need to take care of the medical needs of the elderly. That means that if you do not have a way of identifying who is unwell and therefore you give more money, you should have a way of them having a card that they can use when they go to the hospital. This will help them to get medical assistance for free. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is also the issue of persons who do not have families at all and therefore they do not have a home. Whereas I support the amendment which came to remove the part to create homes, we also need to create a structure where the community, by and large, is also persuaded, through the goodwill of the Government and the leadership in the counties, to actually take in these people. We are slowly getting to a situation where we have elderly people who actually do not have any family. Maybe somebody migrated to the city when he was still young and can work but it reaches a time when they have to go home. When they go there, sometimes there is no family to take care of them. The Government should continue giving the stipend, improve it and take on my suggestion to give them a card which authorizes them to go and receive medical care for free. There is also the issue of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)---"
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