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    "id": 768439,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/768439/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13313,
        "legal_name": "Joseph H Maero Oyula",
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    "content": "Thank you for giving me this opportunity to give my comments on the amendments to the Public Trustee Bill. Kenyans have suffered for a long time basing their claims and so forth on the old Act which, as we have been told, has been on since 1925. This Act left a lot of things hanging for the Kenyans. I want to commend and thank those who have come up with these amendments. I believe these are going to ease the sufferings Kenyans have been going through. In my constituency, we have a lot of claims from the Public Trustee but because of the old stringent rules, many people who ought to have benefitted from the trustee’s funds have missed out. One of the best proposals that has come out is the investment of the funds. This investment will ensure that the young people left behind will get whatever is due to them with interest. I hope that payments of these investments should be made to the beneficiaries together with interest that will have accrued from the investments. I strongly support the conversion of immovable properties to cash. For example, land. You will find that in some areas, we have very small pieces of land and people will tend to fight over them. If that is converted into cash, I am sure distribution will be proper. There has also been a problem in identifying the beneficiaries. Some cases have taken as many as 10 years and over. I hope that the Act will recognise that the beneficiaries need to be identified early enough and compensation is timely. I would also like to suggest that payments to the beneficiaries should be brought closer to the people. You have seen people travelling all the way from Busia to come to the Public Trustee in Nairobi. That is very expensive for the bereaved. I hope that when the Bill will move to the Committee stage, some of these cases particularly the payment of the compensation or benefits should be made closer to the beneficiaries. With those few remarks, I beg to support this Amendment Bill."
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