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    "content": "course, he was not in Africa and he refused to take a third term. Just because of social protection, 16 million people were taken out of poverty. For every dollar that is given as cash transfer, we get back IS$1.8. I cannot forget an old lady in Mombasa who told us that once this money came, she was able to till her land which had not been tilled for 10 years and now she has enough food for a whole year. The money she was given is supporting her. We also have supportive programmes, so that people do not stay on these cash transfers forever. If we link this with the Women Enterprise Fund, the Youth Fund, the Uwezo Fund and the agricultural subsidisies, we will support these people at the hour of need, but they can come out through these processes. We can manage to finance it because we have contributors and the Exchequer, where we should look at. I cannot ask for more time, but I am happy that we are putting in place a policy to make sure that we have a legal framework to deal with social protection. Hon. Deputy Speaker, you tried with the Social assistance Bill, which became an Act and we worked on it with you. The Hon. Members should take this seriously. If we do this, Kenya will be a different society. Even corruption will end. Most of us are corrupt because we are afraid of poverty in old age. I support the adoption of this sessional paper."
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