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    "id": 1032445,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this important Motion. Let me start by thanking Hon. Kiai for, first of all, coming out as a COVID-19 survivor. It will go a long way to reduce stigma in our society. Our colleagues have talked of our priorities being wrong. The Departmental Committee on Health led by Hon. Sabina Chege will tomorrow meet with the NHIF management. We want the Committee members to ask them how much extra money they need so that we can channel all our energies and funds towards saving our citizens. Our priorities as a country are totally upside down. Members of this House, Senators, President, Deputy President, Cabinet Secretaries, County Executive Committee Members, Principal Secretaries, Governors and all leaders have comprehensive insurance covers. It is pathetic that those whom we seek help from – the healthcare workers and the front-line workers - have no health insurance cover. It is a shame for us to be covered and be able to afford treatment and yet, those who take the COVID-19 bullet on our behalf, cannot even treat themselves or even their families. We even have the audacity to say we do not play politics here. Let us channel all our energies towards saving our Kenyan citizens and especially, our health care workers. My colleagues in the health profession are dying in numbers. When their colleagues die, they get scared because they are human beings too. They become afraid and if they die, where will we run to as the citizens of this country? If health care workers can feel unsafe… It is funny because we can get resources to collect one million signatures, but we cannot get one million PPEs donated by Jack Ma which got lost at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to give to our health care workers in order to boost their morale and safety so that they can save us. It is funny. Kshs14 billion probably, is what will be used for a referendum. I am ashamed to be a Member of this House when Hon. Wambugu, the leader of"
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