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    "id": 983587,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/983587/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "look at the prices of food, you will realise that we are all struggling. The most important thing is to appreciate that these people need to be protected and supported. There are those who had worked in the Government and are pensionable. The social assistance programme excludes them. It only supports those that are vulnerable. You may be very vulnerable even if you had property at one stage. You get to a stage where you cannot move. You may have property, but you have to rely and depend on others. That is where protection is required. Somebody will run away with your property. There are chances for you to lose your property any minute as you get older and to a level where your thoughts are not right. There must be a way of properly looking at this such that we can take care of every elderly person in the society. In the West, they start their own trust funds, so that when they get old, the funds can support them. It is easier through that arrangement. Currently, it is open that if you are 78 or 80 years, you need to be supported. Nobody has worked on this. Sometimes you had some earnings, but you cannot go on earning because of age and lack of energy, yet you have some money. There must be a way of ensuring that your money supports you. That is what the Bill is missing. The Bill is fine in terms of recognising the place of the elderly, but it is wanting in many respects including the idea of building homes. Some of them are not sustainable. We cannot look at them in that manner."
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