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    "id": 827025,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/827025/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu East, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jackson Lekumontare",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13474,
        "legal_name": "Lentoi Joni L Jackson Lekumontare",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Our elderly people are suffering. What the Government has done is very good, but in reality we have lost very many elderly people in the process. In my constituency, some of the elderly use motorbikes to access this money. You can imagine hiring a motorbike at Kshs1,500 and you are going for Kshs2,000. The people are suffering. I have visited the centres several times and it could be that those who pay the elderly people are very corrupt. If we are not careful, they will take 50 per cent of the money. I do not know why they lack a formula for making payments. When the elderly people put their fingerprints on the scanners, many of them are told that their fingers cannot be read. If we have an alternative way of voting, why can we not have an alternative way of paying these people? It is very pathetic when they are forced to go back without money. So, we have told some people to be accountable. The Government has given out money and there is nothing which is working. They cannot even access the NHIF services despite the fact they are deducting some amounts. Those cards do not function. So, we have to hold them accountable. Even the banks through which they pay must do something because our people are suffering. Thank you."
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