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    "id": 1108696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Constitution. That is across many other laws. So, it is actually true that the Bill is premised on aligning various laws in the health sector to the Constitution. The Bill is not based only on professional bodies. KEMSA and NHIF are not professional bodies but they are being affected. The Bill affects several laws in the health sector and this is not the first time this is happening. We did it in 2017. We have done it with the Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, where we looked at all laws to do with tax and amended them within one omnibus Bill. The thread that runs across the Bill is the management bodies of all those institutions under the health sector. Whether you bring 27 standalone Bills or one Bill… I remember we had this discussion just last week at the Committee of the whole House. Members suggested that instead of having many Bills, why do we not have one omnibus Bill that basically changes all reference to Minister in all laws to Cabinet Secretary? It is not true to say that this is a Miscellaneous Amendment Bill. This is specific to laws within the health sector and it covers various bodies. There has been talk about the Mwongozo code and harmonisation. Since I came to this House in 2017, every law that changes composition of a board, and you can check in the Hansard, has been clear that we are doing so to comply with the Mwongozo code. Business in this House is regulated through precedents and practices. We have already set a precedent in this House that all laws are harmonised with the Mwongozo code. Even if that code has never been brought here, we have internalised it. It is in the Hansard and we have justified why we are changing directors to conform to the code. When it does not favour us, let us not start saying perhaps we were wrong. We will open a Pandora’s Box. All those laws that we passed to set board membership to accord with the Mwongozo code would then be illegal. We have already legitimised it in this House through internalising it and applying it to various laws."
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