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    "content": "because there will be over a million of such houses which will be provided for senior citizens? Section 12 of the Bill goes on to say that the executive committee members shall be delivering home based care. This is an onerous task that we are giving the county governments which are already burdened with more programmes. This would rather be left to the management in an African home set up where we have managed to take care of our elderly and we will continue to do so with a lot of dignity and care. I am opposed to Section 16 which provides that a county government may establish and maintain residential home for senior citizens. This is the same issue of funding because it will be a very expensive exercise for county governments to undertake. As I said, if the national Government cannot pay teachers where will they get money for the establishment of these homes? Section 17 which I’m again opposed to, say:- “That a person who intends to establish a home for senior citizens shall make an application for registration to the executive Committee in the prescribed form.” With due respect to the distinguished Senator, if he could look at the law under the Children’s Act which provides a guideline on how those homes should be established, I would request that we harmonize this law to avoid conflict of laws. The intention by the distinguished Senator in presenting this Bill is very good. I would urge him to look at some of these clauses, redefine them, so that they can give us a Bill that can be supported and we have a bi-partisan approach in supporting our senior citizens. Some of the things I would have been pleased to see, included in this Bill would have been; how do we continue paying our senior citizens because there is a fund that the government has established? I would have been happy to see a clear legislation that clearly states the amount the senior citizens would be receiving, establishment of a fund that can manage them without removing them from the love and care of their home-based area. We know that a number of our senior citizens are not receiving this money established by the State, especially in the western part of this country. Many of them have never been paid for a very long time. If they are paid, it is very skewed, say, in a very small area where the area chief decides to pay those close to him or her. This fund needs to be looked at, so that all our senior citizens are properly put into the necessary data clearly, with their names so that they can benefit from the fund. We do not want to see a skewed way in which the fund operates. I support."
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