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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) R.N. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Reginalda Nakhumicha Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. As a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I am proud that we have an able Chairman who has steered the Committee to the heights we have reached together with the Parliamentary Budget Office, led by Mrs. Phyllis Makau. Madam Phyllis and her team have worked tirelessly over this Budget. I must commend them. I have a few comments on this Report. First of all, a lot has been said about allocations to various areas of the economy, but I have an issue with the funds that go to the elderly people in various parts of the country. I have observed that certain areas, like Bungoma County, the elderly people have been receiving money. However, the amount they are given does not cater for all the elderly people in that county. The idea of adding 200 people to the list of beneficiaries on an annual basis is not fair. We have elderly people who are suffering due to poverty, but who have not been covered by the programme. When you try to find out why some elderly people are being discriminated against, you are told that their sons or daughters are working. This has created the impression that all the elderly people are being catered for yet that is not the truth. I have observed that most of the elderly people in that county are suffering because of that kind of thinking. The fact that an elderly person has a child who is working is not guarantee that they are being helped. It is wrong to assume that all working people take care of their elderly parents. Let them have their full rights, as elderly persons. Some elderly people may be having working children, but it is not obvious that they are getting help. It is my request that all elderly persons should be treated equally by allowing them to enjoy their rights as elderly persons under this particular programme. On issues of the environment, we recently scrapped the environmental impact assessment fees, which has for a long time been charged on investors who engage in various environmental The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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