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    "content": "from friends and organizations. They will learn about these particular homes and their accessibility. The only thing I would wish this Bill to come up with is possibly a framework of getting a database for every county. This database will enable us to easily track the number of homes for the elderly and community homes in the counties. Similarly, it will enable us to easily visit these homes when we intend to so that they can get more funds from friends. Another very important aspect in this Bill is the provision of penalties on conviction of abuse of the elderly. Many elderly people are being abused; many elderly women are being raped and the property of elderly men is being stolen. Therefore, this Bill seeks to free them from all this abuse. This is a very important Bill that this House should support and even add more flesh to it. We should also look at the penalties. For instance, how much can we fine people who abuse the elderly in terms of denying them services in these homes? Alternatively, what might happen to a person when they abuse the elderly in these homes? We also need to have criteria on how the county governments can employ more staff for these homes. This is a very important Bill and we need to take it very seriously at this time and develop these homes in our country without looking at the perspective of the Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs). We need to look at them in a national and county perspective so that we can protect our elderly. Finally, Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to enlighten our communities to understand this Bill. Just as you said earlier, a long time ago in some of our communities, when you talk of taking your parents away from the family, you might be mistaken as a social misfit because our parents would not want to move from their homes. We, therefore, need to enlighten our communities that, possibly, because of the many changes that we are coming across socially and economically because of the unemployment and poverty, we need to make our communities understand and also support this particular initiative. We should also make our communities understand that---"
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