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    "id": 823363,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/823363/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
        "slug": "john-sakwa-bunyasi"
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    "content": "an increased allocation of resources to support households living below the poverty line. They, too, are facing hardships in terms of accessing those services in the same areas as the salaried workers. The salary of whoever is posted there is automatically adjusted to bring it to the level being earned by their peers. You could be separated by a road but still have problems of moral hazards being so close. You can see clearly how that can be absurd; that you cross the road and you are eligible for an allowance. If you go back to where you used to be employed, you do not get it. I would like to see a measure that targets household poverty. In my Nambale Constituency and Busia County as a whole, we have areas within the constituency where people have deeper levels of poverty and children cannot get a meal in the morning before they go to school. So, they run home and back to get a meal. They need to supplement the foods. When they get to high school, Kshs10,000 is required per year for the feeding programme, and this is a major hurdle. People are running to NG-CDF offices to ask for bursary to pay for lunch programme. That means that we should be targeting how to support feeding programmes and income supplementation programme for the elderly in those households in a way that we empower them to access those services. If we do that, we will do several things. One, we will inject funds in the economy where it is most needed and that will have a major multiplier effect. Two, we will have households with low or no income at all minimise their harsh living conditions and we will have healthier young people growing up."
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