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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wish to seek a clarification from the Chairperson. First of all, he talked about the members of the Constituency Social Committee being paid. When will they start paying these people? They rely on the Member of Parliament to pay them hand outs and transport allowance. Is it possible for us to increase the number of the vulnerable people? At the moment, the number is small yet if you go to the rural areas, there are very many people who should be benefiting from this. Can we increase the number to 1,000, so that we can bring other people on board? Lastly but not the least, when we debated this issue at the beginning of the last Parliament, we said that at the time of registering these people, they should also be registered for the National Hospital Insurance Fund. What has happened? They are supposed to get the Kshs2,000 plus the NHIF card. Has this been put in place? In my constituency, a man of over 80 years travels to the post office, 100 kilometres away. He cannot go on his own and is assisted. Is it possible to change the Act, so that we can have mobile paying points? We should then pay these old people either at the chief’s or the sub-chief’s centres. In Kwanza, for example, an 80 year old person travels all the way to Endebbes and spends Kshs800 only to get Kshs1,000. As the Chair rightly said, he gets there and finds that maybe his name is not there. So, can we have mobile paying points other than going to the post office?"
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