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    "content": "with elders, chatting and sharing wisdom. That was the path that he chose because by the time one becomes the head of the Catholic Church, he probably has not developed or built a family around him but for the 99.9 per cent of the elderly in this Republic who have families, we must continue to encourage their children to take care of them. The concept of retirement was very aptly captured by Governor Kiraitu Murungi when President Moi left office. The then Minister Kiraitu told President Moi to go home, buy a radio and lie under a tree and watch the kind of miracles that the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Government was going to do. The concept of retirement and old age has always been synonymous with rest and it is rest after a very fulfilling life. Allow me to talk about the issues of cash transfers. The Government has come up with the Inua Jamii Program which targets to transfer cash to the elderly and the vulnerable in society. In the last Parliament, we attempted to get an account or accountability of the amounts that have been disbursed to the elderly and to the vulnerable across counties but we never got a response in this House. I want to challenge the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare that this is an area that we must audit. There are a lot of ghost old men and women on that list. If we do not check it, you might find that a chief has enrolled his daughter, relatives or close relations to that. If you are going to target a million people and you get 10,000 fake people at Kshs4,000 a month, you can imagine how much money that will be every month and how much money that will be every year. We have a responsibility to unpack this Inua Jamii Program; and a responsibility to advise the Government on efficient ways of administering this program. It must have been in Migori or one of those counties where the elderly said that when that windfall arrives, everyone gets to know and when they go to withdraw the money in town, they meet young men whose only intention is to defraud them of that money. We must use technology in a sustainable and adaptable manner for this money to reach the elderly people in whatever corner of the country that they sit in. This is one area that the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) must use the Universal Service Fund (USF) to come up with innovative technological ideas that can serve the elderly as far as the social transfer programme is concerned. This House is partly to blame for the pension crisis in this Republic. The County Pensions Schemes Bill, we never---"
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