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"speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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"content": "Independence. The people we represent must be realistic that it will not be business as usual. The reality is that we will not meet our targets in terms of tax collection. On the other hand, as people’s representatives, we must put in place measures of cushioning Kenyans. When we had a meeting with the CS for Labour and Social Protection, we made a request that we should have another fresh campaign to register more Kenyans who are vulnerable and above 65 years old, so that they can receive the Kshs2,000 given to them every month. This is so that they can have money to support them. We also raised a number of serious concerns, including the congestions that are being seen in our banks. Our senior citizens must go physically to the bank to receive the money. We asked the CS to consider paying the senior citizens through the M-pesa platform. I am happy that Sen. Farhiya is in the House. Some of the concerns we are being given is that some people in northern Kenya do not have access to mobile phones. They have never known the importance of buying mobile phones, which is almost unbelievable to some of us. We are being told that it is the reality on the ground in some parts of northern Kenya. Madam Temporary Speaker, we do not want to expose our senior citizens while going to crowd in banks. I gave an example of what happened in Nyamira and Keroka towns, where so many people went to the bank to collect their money. They were rained on and all ran to the bank, and there was nothing like social distancing. If anybody had COVID-19 in that bank that day, over 100 Kenyans would have caught the disease. Going forward, which will be one of the quick wins---"
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