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    "content": "families, we have, as Members of Parliament of the Catholic faith bought a parcel of land in Kitale; about 15 or 20 acres. We are building a retirement home for our elderly priests. When they retire, they have lived away from their families, they go back home to find the land the father left has been shared. There are children who do not remember them or recognize them. As Sen. Sakaja said, there are people who kill their parents to inherit and this is happening in many places. After passage of this Bill, I want us to mount some public education and tell everybody that aging is not a crime; it is a transitional stage. That is why sometimes when people say that the youth are vulnerable, I do not agree, because youth is not a state, it is a transition. You are a youth today, you are middle aged tomorrow and you are old the next day. For us to start equating youth with disabilities, it is actually an affront on young people because they are not in any way disadvantaged, except that they are younger than us and some of us are older than them. If we teach them how to live decently and how to appreciate that a 20-year old today, will ten years later be 30 years and that when they reach 50 years, they start the Napoleonic descent, the sooner that they will understand that what you do for the old today will be done to you when you are old tomorrow. This is what we must do. Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, as I support this Bill, I want to encourage Sen. Cheruiyot, that this noble idea should not just be left at this regulatory level but we must find the mechanism. If we are able to say that a certain percentage of the national Budget can go to political parties, we can put a percentage of the national Budget into a kitty for the elderly and vulnerable so that they can be looked after. Politicians on their misadventures can look after themselves, but old people; those who have not had any job in their lives, have children who have deserted them, have no children, come from societies that are hostile to old people - we have many such societies - and also those with difficulties that we all know and understand, must be protected. When you go out there looking for votes, “hakuna kura ya mlemavu, hakuna kura"
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