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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "biggest expenditure on them each time is towards health. This is the main reason I stand to support this Bill. Clause 11 of this Bill seeks to entitle older members of our society to affordable, adequate healthcare for free. How beautiful! I have had cases back in the village where elderly persons are taken to hospital, but they are not covered under the NHIF or any social security arrangement. The social security support system around them is not as strong as it was traditionally. You do not know how it can be done. It is worse when you think about Homa Bay with its HIV prevalence rate. So, this is something that is going to ensure that elderly persons can meaningfully live in dignity. The other part of this Bill that tickles my heart is the part dealing with access to justice and legal capacity. I remember before I came to this Parliament, in 2012, I was requested to represent a lady who had been remanded for over one-and-a-half years by people who were scavenging on her property somewhere in Karen. This is a lady who had over 38 acres of land. By the time I was being requested to intervene and provide free legal representation, she had lost over 20 of these acres to people working in public and State offices and to people who ought to have been her caregivers. Just before I came to Parliament, I got this lady released from remand, where she had been on fabricated charges for all this time. When I was moving so well in representing her, I was made a co-accused and I was warned before that: “You continue representing this lady, we will make you co-accused.” This was meant to dissuade me from representing the lady. Why am I mentioning this, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker? Let us look at Clause 14."
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