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    "id": 1108718,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to agree with Hon. Kaluma and Hon. Duale. Coming from the medical profession, I know the intentions of this Bill are not so clear. I want to give you a very simple example, say, where we change the rules governing the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) and we have it that the Cabinet Secretary for Labor, Social Security and Services will be guiding the labor organisation to elect Atwoli! All the things in this Bill are squarely professional. As we speak, I have a Bill for biomedical engineers and we need them to govern themselves as professionals. We have just had a participation in Mombasa with the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) and they have agreed that the Bill can proceed so long as the biomedical engineers can pay the subscription and the board does not get any money from the Exchequer. Hon. Speaker, most of these professional bodies rarely get any money from the Exchequer. Why do we want to curtail them? The Bill on clinicians that was brought by my brother, Hon. Sang, was passed in the last Parliament, and it gives directions of training and mechanisms of reporting matters of the profession. These are the professional bodies that advise the Ministry. How do you make the boss of that professional body to be the same Ministry which is supposed to receive recommendations from the professional bodies in order to enhance health in this country? Hon. Speaker, I know you are a man of wisdom. I know you will make a determination. Allow us to proceed with this issue and probably murder it completely, once and for all, at the Second Reading. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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