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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ronald Kiprotich Tonui,",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Bomet Central",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to also make my contribution on this very important Amendment Bill. As I start my second term in this House, maybe, I should take a minute to thank the great people of Bomet Central for voting me back to this House to serve them again. They did that overwhelmingly with about 86 per cent of the total votes and so I am very grateful. I believe they appreciated the work I did here and on the ground for them to vote me in again. I respect those votes and will ensure that I serve them both within this House and on the ground to ensure that various services are made available as we perform in the area of development which we pledged to do. Back to this Bill, I want to support it because it is very important. This is because we need to ensure that the funds of the deceased or missing are transferred to their families so that their beneficiaries do not suffer. So, in addressing the many gaps which are there in the current Public Trustee Bill is very important so that everything becomes smooth and can be handled well. Currently, the offices of Public Trustee are only in Nairobi and the former provincial headquarters. It now needs to be devolved to the county level owing to the current realities that we now have the county governments which are closer to the people on the ground. We also need these offices of Public Trustee to be there so that it becomes convenient for our people to be served at the nearest points possible. I am happy that in this Bill, the issue of investment of those funds which remain idle in the offices of the Public Trustee have been provided for so that they need to be invested so that if the beneficiaries become available, they do not simply get the original amount of funds only but also get something on top of it. So, this idea of capturing investment in this Bill is a positive move and needs to be supported by all so that losses are minimised for the beneficiaries. The issue of the people who are to be appointed to the Office of the Public Trustee having a legal background is very important because it has a lot of legal dimensions. I believe they should even have additional qualifications. They should not simply be having a legal background but also integrity and a practising licence from the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and any other relevant bodies for them to perform in these offices. They need to be cleared of integrity and any other legal requirements. I am happy that this Bill also addresses the issue of missing persons. We have had several people who have been missing for very many years. I know of one who had been missing for more than 10 years and the family could not access his properties, pensions, gratuity and the like. They suffered for more than 10 years before it was actually discovered that he was already 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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