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    "id": 971239,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "Finally, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill seeks to combat the abuse of older members of society. As age progresses, abuse also morphs into a special kind of abuse. A number of abuses that our older people go through have been listed here by various speakers who have contributed to this Bill. Some of the abuses that we do not think about more often are even leading to earlier deaths of our older people. An example of such abuse is inheritance. These old people have worked all their lives to get what they call their own. We have seen cases where abuse does not come from outside, but from members of the family. We have had cases of people disinheriting their old members of the family in their sickbeds. An individual shows up in hospital with a form, gets the hand of a sick elderly patient and goes on to imprint the thumbprint on the form! So, the elderly patient is forced to give permission for his or her belongings to be inherited. Their consent is not sought. When such a person learns that it is his or her children who are disinheriting him or her, his or her ailment will fast- forward. Some of them end up even dying because of abuse that is coming from within the family. More than that, I would like to say that this Bill is timely and we need it to be passed and implemented. I do support Members of Parliament who have said that we cannot domicile this care under county governments. We can think of how it can come under our National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) or even the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) so that it is in a place where we know — given that the monies are being disbursed as conditional loans — they will be taken care of. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do support."
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