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    "id": 493693,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/493693/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1574,
        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support this Motion. From the outset, I would like to say that the age bracket targeted by this Motion is of people who have been marginalized in a way. Since we have the YEDF, the WEDF and the Uwezo Fund, which targets youth aged between 18 and 35 years, what is the transition position? When one attains 36 years of age, does one leave the YEDF? If so, where does one go? That is why I support this Motion. Once you leave that age bracket, you will be kicked out of that particular fund and you will not benefit any longer. That transition age should be considered. When we go to meetings and barazas, we are asked questions like “Are we not members of this society? Should we not benefit from the services that the Government is giving?” At 50 years of age most people are very strong. In fact, they are at a reproductive stage. They can even be working. Some institutions retire people at the age of 40 years. Others are voluntarily retired at 50 years. If you go out there and you are not a beneficiary of a fund, or you do not have savings to sustain you and your family, then you are likely to turn vulnerable to poverty. It is unfair for the Government to wait up to when one is 65 years old in order for one to start benefitting. It is an abuse for the Government to wait for somebody to get to 65 years of age, so that it can give him or her Kshs2,000 per month. It is an abuse because people are neglected at their productive age of 50 to 65 years. When you start becoming old, you start getting peanuts. I believe that if there is a fund which one can be a member of, and get money from it for use, then at the age of, say, 40 years--- (Loud consultations)"
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