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    "content": "most of those people who live in homes for the elderly are very unhappy and they would rather be in the warmth of their family. However, there are those whose family or children are very needy and might not be able to take care of them. What I want to emphasize, Madam Temporary Speaker, is for us to have a criteria so that we see what is implementable. This will ensure that when we pass this Bill, both levels of Government can implement it. There is no need of passing a Bill which ends up on the shelves. Therefore, we need to add value and find out how much it costs to pay for all our elderly aged 60 and above. I also qualify for this. However, we also need to know how many we can handle. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other point I want to raise is on the issue of security, which has been raised extensively in this debate. This is because we hear that many of our women, including our young and old men, are going through a lot of difficulties. We need to have data of all our elderly homes at the ward, constituency and county levels so that our security personnel can be charged to do some kind of patrol around those homes. Once that is done, those would-be law breakers will know that these people are being protected. That way, we might reduce this problem of women and girls being raped and killed. Madam Temporary Speaker, Commissioner Lorna Mumelo, who is my colleague, told me that an old man came crying to her. Actually, she found him crying at the gate and she asked him: “Baba why are you crying?” He explained that it was because the lands office had tried to steal his land. He is one of those people being compensated for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), and he was told that he would get a quarter of what he was supposed to get. Commissioner Mumelo took this old man to Prof. Swazuri’s office and after a long argument that matter was sorted out. He was given back his land and paid the total amount. Can we see how many other old men and women are being swindled of their land out there? We, therefore, need to tighten the laws. I believe that we can do the basics, by tightening these laws and making sure that Ministries and other government agencies where these people are served, take care of our old people without trying to steal from them."
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