{"id":827014,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/827014/?format=json","text_counter":493,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Molo, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Kuria Kimani","speaker":{"id":13435,"legal_name":"Francis Kuria Kimani","slug":"francis-kuria-kimani"},"content":" Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to contribute on this Motion. We cannot over-emphasise the time value of money. Every time you get late to submit any claim from the Government, be it when you are submitting NHIF, NSSF or KRA returns, you always pay a fine and an interest. But the payments to our grandparents, the old man and woman in Mariashoni, Elburgon, Garissa or anywhere else in this country delay, and yet they have to buy drugs and food. Giving funds to the elderly should not be a punishment. The old women and men queue for very long hours. If we can pay for many other services via mobile money transfer like M-Pesa, why can these old men and women not be paid via the same service? They queue every now and then, spend days under the scorching sun yet some of them are diabetic and can hardly stand in a queue. Lastly, a list of their names was taken in the last few months, but when you go to the offices to check what happened to the names, every time you are told that: “ Hayo majinahayajarudishwa kutoka Nairobi .” That means that most of the data that was captured has not been returned for public participation. Therefore, they do not access the money. This can easily be called discrimination because if you are of a particular age, you are supposed to get this stipend. So, why is the money reaching some and not others? It points to only one thing, that just like many other Government projects with very good vision and budgetary allocation, somebody somewhere is sleeping on the job and our parents are suffering. This needs to end. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."}