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    "id": 1038829,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. From the onset, on behalf of the people of Nandi County and my family, I take this opportunity to condole with the family of my brother, my learned senior, the late Sen. (Dr.) Boniface Mutinda Kabaka. He was a great man. I remember when were in Senate Mashinani, with your permission, you allowed us to go and address Nandi County Assembly. He was a sharp brilliant legal mind, a man who was always smiling, generous at heart and engagement. He was somebody who would not look down on people. I want to extend our deepest condolences to the people of Machakos and the nation at large. It is a lesson that all of us are sojourners on earth and we should be ready any time. He was a great defender of devolution. I had the privilege of serving with him under the Chairmanship of Sen. Kinyua in the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations then. The last time we had an engagement; it was with the sugar farmers when we had a matter concerning the State owned sugar companies in the Nyando Sugar Belt. He was very instrumental in ensuring that justice for the farmers must be looked at, over and above everything else. Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, even as the country goes through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, I had the privilege of receiving a Petition from the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) and the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) the other day. Even as we struggle with this pandemic and mourn our colleague, it is important that we fix the public healthcare system in this country. I also think that it is very important that every Kenyan should access healthcare wherever they are in the over 14,000 public health facilities that we have across the nation. Even as the nurses, clinical officers and other health workers are on strike or industrial action, we call upon the Government and the CoG to step in to ensure that their issues and grievances, including the release of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), insurance cover and many others such as the universal health cover are dealt with. We want the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to cover all Kenyans so that when The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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