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    "id": 1094380,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Waluke",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to also support the Bill. Out there, many of our parents, brothers and sisters are poor and cannot afford to pay for NHIF cover. As a House, I request that we come in to make sure that they pay for our people to get this cover. Very many people are dying. In one weekend, you can bury even 15 people in a constituency. Because of lack of money and poverty, our people go through very difficult times, especially during this COVID-19 period. Kenyan people operate below a dollar. Time and time again, the Government has talked of improving the lives of our people. The Government should start by paying for the people if it wants to save lives. It is difficult if you are sick and you cannot even afford food or medicine to make you feel like a Kenyan. Our people live like refugees in their own country. Fifty per cent of the population of this country is poor. Therefore, as leaders, we should come in. The NHIF staff should also come out. These days we see even banks going out to do marketing. The NHIF staff are just sitting there. They do not even educate the community on what NHIF is. The NHIF Managing Director should come out with his people. The other day I saw the Cabinet Secretary for Interior, Matiang’i, doing marketing 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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