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    "id": 1081764,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nandi Hills, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alfred Keter",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred Kiptoo Keter",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. For your information, I was here yesterday up to around 10.00 p.m. From the outset, I support this Bill. It is going to address many issues that were left out by the Senate that we expected to be functional. Unfortunately, it resorted to duplicating the responsibilities of the National Assembly and play different roles. In a functional Senate, this issue should have been addressed by 2013, a long time ago. I first want to thank the Committee that sat to interrogate this Bill. The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service Bill is long overdue. The many issues it is raising are because of lack of a framework which is part of the issues that I have raised about a Senate that is not functional. I remember a time when it was all over news outlets that we had lost blood. That points out many things. It points out that the Senate as it oversees counties, and health being a devolved function, is not doing its mandate. County governments are not functional. In a functional county government, we cannot have a situation where we have only six regional transfusion centres. Can you imagine? Even if we were to go by the previous eight provinces before we had the 47 counties, two of them are without a blood transfusion centre. That is grave. We are supporting this Bill with amendments that have been proposed by various stakeholders. I thank the Committee for exercising its power and using provisions of the Constitution to engage the members of public. On public hearing, most people have never understood why it is important to involve other stakeholders. As representatives, some people believe that because we represent Kenyans, we can handle all issues. There are many stakeholders The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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