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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, those are very valuable questions. The question by the Minority Leader that all the beneficiaries of the programme should be provided per county or constituency is necessary. The best thing is for the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, which we will inaugurate tomorrow, to call the Cabinet Secretary for East Africa Community, Labour and Social Protection to come here so that Members can ventilate on these issues. I cannot pretend to know the number of people who get this money from Elgeyo Marakwet County. We need to have that list. As a follow up, let us channel this to the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare so that they can take up the issue. On the issue of 70 years and above, this could be merged together with what Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. said. Why should someone travel to go and collect their money from very far? Similarly, why can these funds not be administered at the ward level, so that the social funds managers at the county level are responsible for disbursing this money? Further, why should people go to the bank when we generally have mobile cash transfer systems? I must be honest to say that some elderly people of 70 years and above cannot operate a mobile phone and, therefore, they fall prey to fraudsters and specifically to family members. There are family members who are fraudsters. That has necessitated the requirement. Therefore, my suggestion to this is that the Ministry should have a mobile payment system. Once a month, someone should go around on a motor bike and pay the elderly in a particular center instead of 50 elderly people paying for transport to go to Kapsowar from Embobut. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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