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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is a very important budget line for social security for the elderly who we represent in this House. I hope the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Secretary in charge of Labour are watching me. You can steal but you cannot steal from the elderly. This money is being stolen. I want to go on record. The actual beneficiaries do not get their money. They pass through a very bureaucratic system where there are chiefs and social workers involved. This is one of the biggest achievements of the Jubilee administration because they gave an insurance policy for the elderly. The insurance policy was to give a stipend of about Kshs3000. We became the first African country to provide social protection to its old citizens. That is the achievement of President Uhuru Kenyatta. What is the implementation matrix? As leaders, we represent the people. We must say it. This money was one time going through post office, and then it was taken to Safaricom Mpesa and, now, it is with Equity Bank. The amount of money is being hoarded in the bank accounts of major financial institutions who earn interests out of this very noble idea. I am sure the Members who are in the Labour and Social Welfare Committee in this House will ensure that the money we appropriate for the elderly people in our constituencies, and our country…. A country that takes care of its elderly will be a country that will be blessed by the Almighty God. So, let us make our elders who are 70 years and above get government insurance policy and their stipends in a timely and efficiently manner, without anybody corrupting it. I urge our colleagues through the Chair, Hon. Ali Wario, to follow it up. Let us get reports every three months and let us see it, on constituency basis, how many are accessing those monies. If, for example, I have 2,000 elderly people in my constituency, I can verify from which location and wards they come from."
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