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    "id": 873988,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/873988/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "It is time the Government, Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services looks at that. There are certain programmes in this country like Inua Jamii, free maternity healthcare and malipo kwa wazee which use money from the Exchequer. This House should set aside funds to help the poor who have lost their loves ones. That way, we will put a smile on those people when they are mourning. You can imagine this is a person who has lost a loved one, he is crying and does not have any means of paying for that person. He goes to the hospital and he is told to pay Kshs1 million and yet this person has never seen how a million looks like in his life. This family goes into a depression. These people are burying someone but you can see that the family has more problems than at any other time. This Government should have a deliberate programme to take care of the poor. This Government has very big programmes like the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), universal healthcare and Inua Jamii . The President launched very many cars for the Inua Jamii programme at State House today. Although you will put that old man on pension or some pay every month, when he dies, the family gets into abject poverty because of the death of the very person that the Government tried to support for many years through the Inua Jamii programme."
}