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"content": "You remember that in the old days in agriculture, we used to have fellows called ‘ karakacha’ who used to go round the villages everyday to see how we were farming. We used to have people called ‘ bora afya’ who used to go round the village to teach people how to eliminate mosquitoes. We also need to have people who will be taking care of quality. Most of the homecare institutions can go for five or even ten years without any state official visiting to see who is there, the standard of care and how much money they spend. Even if you are getting donations from abroad, they are taxpayers’ money from those countries. They stand to be audited and looked at. I want Sen. Cheruiyot to have a clause in this Bill that requires that those who run this homecare centres in the villages and wherever, must also be accountable to the Government. They must tell the Government how much they are receiving from donors, raising locally, anybody and everybody is giving them and how they account for it. It is immoral and criminal for you to set up a home ostensibly to look after old people, and a year later, you go to the settlement schemes to buy 100 acres of land, set up a commercial school or driving the latest cars and yet, you are supposed to be looking after old and vulnerable people who require a standard of care. Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of the problems that we also have is very unpopular with the young people in this country and justifiably so, because the state of living is very difficult in Kenya. However, look at Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (UK), they have progressively increased the retirement age. During the Kibaki Regime, we increased the retirement age from 55 to 60 years, and it became very unpopular. However, you will also find that if the economy is vibrant, first, we must wean ourselves off the notion that for one to be gainfully employed, they must put on a tie and suit, like the Senate Majority Leader is doing, and go into an office every morning. We must make Kenyans understand that you can gainfully earn a living by being innovative and engaging in other forms of work other than going to an office in a tie. Then, the level of competition for those who go to offices to work reduces and we can extend the time of their work. Sometimes people retire to oblivion and you eventually find that the person who retired goes home, they do not have money; they cannot live; they perish. I do not know if my distinguished colleague, Sen. Murkomen, remembers – I will tell you the name in private so that we do not malign families - we had a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, at our time, a brilliant man. He worked, eventually through misconduct, he was sacked and could not get a job elsewhere. He roamed the streets of Nairobi and if you met him on the streets, he accosted you and whispered to you as if he had a major discovery that he had found a place where he can get a mirror at Kshs20. Finally, the man died and the cause of death was diagnosed as starvation - a lecturer of law from the University of Nairobi. If we had such guides--- It is a shame and irresponsibility. Society has no shortage of such irresponsible people unless we have others to help them. I want this Bill to be embraced by all of us because there is not a place in this country where there are no old people or vulnerable people. In fact, those of us who embrace the Catholic Church, conscious that our priests do not marry, do not have core 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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