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    "id": 837283,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I take this opportunity to thank Sen. Cheruiyot, the Senator for Kericho County, for this wonderful thought. When people hear that the Senate is coming up with this Bill, they might think that it is a wild thought having in mind that we are in an African setting. However, this is a wonderful thought and this is how many jurisdictions in the world are helping their old people. When people get to old age, so many things happen. Some of them become sick and are unable to move around the house hence they need somebody to take care of them. There are some whose children have grown old and have left them while some have left their spouses and are now on their own. It is high time that we took care of our elderly people. This Bill sets a legal framework for us to come up with proper mechanisms of taking care of our elderly in order for them to live a life of dignity and respect. I once attended Mashujaa Day in my County where the elderly people were paraded as the shujaas of that county. What happened there was terrible for they were paraded without proper recognition. Most of them looked miserable. They did not have clothes and most of them did not have homes. Those old people do not have anything to take care of and they look very sick. It is a high time that we celebrate Mashujaa Day and I urge Sen. Cheruiyot to think about that. What do we mean by Mashujaa Day? How do we recognise our elderly who are our shujaas ? How do we appreciate them? That is the thing that shocked me when I attended Mashujaa Day in my county. I later requested the County Government to come up with a strategy of how we can help our mashujaas . These are people who were in high positions in the society and Government but they are left on their own at the retirement age. I like the responsibility that is put both on the National Government and county government in this Bill. The current situation is that the National Government is the one The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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