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    "id": 485676,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/485676/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I would like to seek clarification from the Chairman. The problem of this cash transfer programme is not the money not being enough; it is the act of getting that money to the right people that is a problem. I do not know about the other constituencies, but in my constituency, when we did an audit, 13 people were rising from the graves and collecting money and I do not know for how many years. That had not been detected by the system. When you ask the Social Services officials, they say that they did not have the capacity and they were not facilitated to be able to do an audit to know who among the beneficiaries passed on and therefore, should stop collecting the money. We are talking about 65 years of age, but most of the people who receive the money in some places are 85 years old and above. They are not able to move from their houses to the towns to get the money. So, they have appointed caretakers who collect the money on their behalf. These caretakers go to the post office and they do not have any supervision, sometimes, they collect the money and the money does not get to the beneficiaries. They give the reason that since the Government changed hands, the money has not been coming. Sometimes they give names of their relatives. We had issues in allocation whereby 45 people are benefiting, about 15 of them being relatives of the chiefs. Therefore, what is the Government doing about capacity building to ensure that this gap of losses is reduced? They are very important."
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