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    "id": 554875,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/554875/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyonka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, money has been allocated for the social welfare funding from this Budget. This is a brilliant idea because we are taking care of our elderly. I do not know whether hon. Members are aware that, for the first time, this money is actually being allocated according to the constituency. As a result of that, many of our elderly people are now receiving some social recourse because many of them are not able to work at their age. The little money they are getting has also been increased. I would like to thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for having brought up that issue. We hope that in the next Budget money for the elderly will be increased so that we can take care of them. The national Government should introduce the Biometric Registration for such an exercise. This is because we need to have proper registration and identities of the people receiving public money for accountability purposes. Even when the Ministry of Education receives a whopping close to Kshs100 billion for free education; that is for primary and secondary schools there are always gray areas about that allocation and implementation of the project. We are not sure whether this money is being used well. I hope the Auditor-General will put mechanisms in place to make sure that this money is utilized well. He should also ensure that it achieves the targets it was meant to achieve."
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