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    "id": 584978,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senator for Bomet for bringing this Bill to the House. It is a well thought out Bill, very relevant and its intention is to give life to Article 57 of the Constitution. There are those people who think that this Senate is a House of old men. Today, when we are discussing a Bill on elderly persons, they would assume that today is the day we are doing our job. I want to put them to shame and tell them that this House is not an old men’s home, the old men’s home that has been envisaged in this Bill. This House is extremely relevant. However, if you look at the demographics of this House, there are many of us who would benefit from this Bill because they have gone beyond that definition of old age. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my personal interest in this Bill is because I am the son of an old man. My dad is 83 years old and he has served his time as a teacher. He is now in retirement. I see many of his friends and colleagues, people he served with, who are faring very badly. In fact, if you look at the typical trend of citizens in this country, it is that you will be born with a lot of expectations, go to school with a lot of expectations that you will change this world, then you will get a job somewhere in Nairobi or one of the county headquarters and once you serve your time, you retire back in the village to a life that you are not accustomed to. Whereas, you are accustomed to life in the city, 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. in the hustles and bustles of city life, all of a sudden you find yourself in retirement and you cannot afford to continue paying your rent in the city. So, you retreat to the village. Life in the village is very different. People die very quickly while consuming the busaa and"
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