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    "id": 971192,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "been neglected and abused for a long time. The contribution from my colleague from Kilifi is very saddening. Although it was in Kiswahili, I could capture what she said. Old people are terribly abused; you find an old woman being raped because she lives alone and there is nobody to protect her. So many of such women live alone in a very terrifying state of affairs and have neither food nor anybody to take care of them. Those are the people to benefit from the homes that are being proposed in this Bill. Apart from that, Hon. Deputy Speaker, challenges still emerge. Elderly people are suffering in the villages but they also look after children left behind. There are many homes that the elderly people take care of children and yet they get no income. Even the little money that the Government gives them, that is, the Ksh2,000 or Ksh3,000, is never enough. Even here in Nairobi, when you walk around, you see elderly people with their children in the streets. Street mothers and fathers are here. These are the people who need to enjoy this Bill. This Bill should be able to target them so that we can get them out of the streets and keep them in the homes. That is why this Bill is very attractive. It is going to address many areas where the elderly, who live in towns and streets and have no homes, suffer while at the same time encourage individuals to come up with homes. We need to take them back to their counties, if the counties can come up with homes. I was very much attracted with the home-based care where families are sensitised on the rights of the elderly, security, support and ensuring that they enjoy their old age. Otherwise, I support this Bill. It is a good Bill which comes at the right time when everybody sees old people — who are the image of the nation — suffering unnecessarily. We can support them with this Bill."
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