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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jr.",
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    "content": "I have not seen that. So, even if you appoint the chairman of the Makueni CPSB in this. How does his nomination bind the board in Makueni or in another place? You need to tie it because it will cause some problems. That means that we need another amendment to the County Governments Act where the CPSB is housed. In terms of these recommendations, Sen. (Dr.) Ali knows that the most mistreated profession today is that of doctors. The most underpaid people in Kenya today are doctors. Sen. Kavindu Muthama told us during the funeral of her brother that she had to buy Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for herself and the doctors. We are exposing our doctors to such things. This council should say something about it. It should also say something about the 26 year old doctor who passed on while working in Machakos. Somebody has mentioned that during the deployment of some of the interns and in the Universal Health Coverage (UHC), people were dumped all over the counties. I have many pending cases, but in order to implement UHC, the national Government picked interns and people from all over the place. They put them in counties and some of them worked for four or five months without being paid. The reason why they could not be paid is because the ones in Machakos and Makueni were deployed from the national Government and there is no corresponding agreement between the national Government and county governments either on funding et cetera . So, they are just lying there. That young man who died in Machakos was under the UHC programme. So, it is important, Sen. (Dr.) Ali, for the amendment to find a budgetary allocation, a contract and an inter-governmental transfer to be signed, hence the proposal to have an inter-governmental relations framework so that these people can be considered. There are young people who are professionals in radiology, et cetera . When they go to counties, they are paid meagre sums. However, their colleagues who are Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and County Executive Committee Members (CECs) are riding around in big four-wheel drive cars while specialist doctors cannot afford motorcycles. It is extremely unfortunate to be a doctor in Kenya. These people have to undergo mandatory rigorous training to graduate and yet when they finally graduate, even our colleagues in the county assembly earn much more than these professionals. County governments are hiring advisors left, right and centre. Advisors to the weather, to this and the other things, that do not make sense. They pay them more that they are paying professionals such as doctors, surgeons et cetera . It is unfortunate. If this council can resolve those issues, we will be a much better country."
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