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    "speaker_name": "Wundanyi, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Danson Mwashako",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Yes, I was following, but I lost the Chair at some point. I can comment on what I have followed through. First and foremost, I thank the Chair. He was not present last week, but through the Leader of the Majority Party, he has been able to respond. I think he has done a good job. However, there are grey areas. What is happening in the rural areas and, of course, the entire country, is that when the elderly persons who are not registered heard that their colleagues and relatives were being paid, they all flocked into the paying centres. In my place, some old people were being carried by their sons and grandsons to the stations yet their names were not appearing in the list. They were among the 66,000 he mentioned. I have photos of old people, as old as 100 years old, who are not in the system and are not being paid. When they appear and are told that their names are missing, they fall down because most of them are already with hypertension and other diseases. Some of them fall sick and are taken to hospital. They imagine that the Government has ignored them or they are not part of this country. He has promised to bring another Statement next Wednesday. I ask him to implore more because I do not think the State Department for Social Protection is serious with this programme. Members of Parliament are supposed to be the patrons of the programmes in their constituencies. However, many Members are not being involved in the programme yet every single complaint comes to us."
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