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    "id": 983584,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "money because the elderly cannot get it themselves. It is a very important thing. I suggest that even in our NG-CDF, we should have some funds dedicated towards the care and protection of the elderly in our society. The elderly are the mainstay of our society. If we cannot take care of them, our fathers and mothers, we have no right to be part and parcel of that society. This is one of the major pillars of our society. In the Luo tradition, the elderly are like our fathers and mothers. They are our link to the past and the future. I suggest that this issue be brought up for further discussion. I will be very happy to support it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, our family has been involved in this. I am very proud to say that in the United Kingdom, I opened a care home for the elderly and we had 84 elderly persons; our fathers and mothers. I left that to my sister-in-law and she was given an Order of the British Empire (OBE) as a result of some of the work we have done as a family. So, care and protection for the elderly is a must. We must do it. I urge the President to allow us to do this. I also urge that a certain amount of allocation, the same as is given to the elderly and sports, about 1.5 per cent of it is used to take care of our elderly. With those few remarks, I thank you for giving me this time."
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