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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Peris Tobiko",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Bill. This is a very timely Bill that addresses a very fundamental and current issue in our society. The age group in this country that is above 70 years is facing many challenges. Already, as a country, we have numerous challenges in the economy. We have challenges even for young and energetic persons. It now becomes worse for our elderly parents. I support the Members who have emphasised on us as society to think about putting up shelter for our elderly people. However, it is good to encourage our children to take care of their parents, so that we do not remove them from the environment they are already used to. I am just imagining what will happen if I was to remove my mother from her home where she is used to, comfortable and feels she is in control. Even as we create shelters, we need to bring up a society that is ready to accommodate the old people. Right now, I know the Government is giving incentives to take care of our old people. There is a small package. We need to recheck what is happening in terms of the distribution of that money. I have a whole list of old people from my constituency who were beneficiaries at a certain time and were told to open bank accounts. After that, they disappeared from the system. They had received the money for a short while, but they are not in the system. Is there somebody or a group of people who are now fraudulently benefiting from this scheme? We need to ask ourselves, as a House, about that. When we resume, I will bring a list of the members from my constituency who are no longer benefiting from this, yet they used to receive the money. As we talk about our old people, our youth are in a quagmire. If we do not think about providing jobs for the young people, who The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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