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    "id": 905091,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/905091/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me a chance to add my voice to this very important Motion by my colleague Sen. Kwamboka. From the onset, I want to congratulate her for having thought deeply on the concern of these street families, homeless, destitute and vulnerable persons, mostly in our urban areas. This is a very noble idea especially at a time when we have devolved units. It is a timely Motion. I want to encourage her to go further and come up with a Bill. As you walk in the streets in any small town or urban centre in our counties today, you come across all sorts of homeless persons be it women, children and Persons with Disability (PWDs). They are all over our urban areas. This is a very important Motion which will help our counties to deal with this issue. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is need for our county governments to come up with proper data concerning street families. When we look at these persons in our streets, we need to ask ourselves: Who are they? Where are they coming from? Are they registered? Do they have Huduma Namba ? Are they enjoying any benefits such as the Cash Transfer Funds? Are they and their children accessing education? Are they able to access the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) cards that are being given out in collaboration with the county governments? These are issues that our county governments need to address. Our county governments need to have data of these homeless families. They need to know their origins; where they come from. Are they Kenyans? Madam Temporary Speaker, as we speak, there is an emerging trend where PWDs are being brought from Tanzania, across our boundaries to be traded within our cities. There is need for the Government to be aware of who these families are. Are they brought here by design for some people to earn from them as a form of business? This is an issue that we do not need to leave to the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to deal with. We do not need to leave the issue of street families to the activists or in the hands of people who only show them mercy one day and the next day they do not have any mercy for them. The Government needs to come up with strategies to help the street families."
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