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    "id": 1110274,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Maximum prison after being jailed for demanding minimal allowance of Kshs20,000, uniforms et cetera . If any of us doubted the importance of treating medics well, COVIDE-19 pandemic has shown how important doctors are and how important we should treat them. This is because they have been in the centre of fighting the pandemic and treating many people even our friends. As we say so, we have lost a good lawyer friend who was being treated for various diseases and passed on at Karen Hospital. At the time the Building Bridges Initiatives (BBI) was being proposed, doctors were insisting that they wanted a commission of their own be entrenched in the Constitution. In 2010, doctors wanted a commission. The purpose of putting the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in the Constitution was because it was thought that it would defend teachers. However, after it was formed and commissioners appointed, they ended up being an Executive leaning organization. This is because the members of the Commission are from the Executive and do not represent the welfare of teachers. It was my advice when they came to me that it is far much better to start this from the lowest position possible and have an organization where they can appoint their own people to sit in a council which they can manage and elect. The same way lawyers can appoint, Nelson Havi to be their President, the same way architects and surveyors can appoint their chairs, et cetera . The same way the young lawyers can say that they need a waiver on their fees. They are saying so, because they have an opportunity and people who they have elected. They can even pass amendments. They have shown that with numbers, they can elect the president, pass a special motion and remove members when they want. The same would happen to doctors. What Sen. Wetangula, Sen. Murkomen and I were discussing is that there is a framework in the County Governments Act. That is where we need to tie the loose ends. The framework in that Act is the County Public Service Board (CPSB) for hiring and firing. These are independent outfits and one cannot command the other one in terms of Article 6(2) that Sen. Wetangula mentioned. They are distinct and independent. We might want a doctor who is in Mandera, but how do we make it through the advisory council and blend it so that the CPSBs obey these orders? How do we make these resolutions and recommendations binding? We cannot have the framework of inter-government both at the county government and the national level in this framework without amending the Inter- Governmental Relations Act. We need to find a place to bind all levels by having an inter-governmental framework at all times, including the time when we were talking to Dr. Mailu as the Cabinet Secretary (CS). He was busy advocating for the jailing of his colleagues. He did not think it was important to listen to doctors. Currently, there is no simple recommendation from this council that can bind a CS. In the memorandum and objects in paragraph 2, you have said that-"
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