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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "worker can be paid across the country. We must also create a structure that will facilitate the education of these health workers. In the national Government level, health workers used to have the opportunity to go for further studies which was paid by the national Government. They would study and come back. However, when they go to the counties, they are told they do not have money. So, we inhibit their education and professional growth. So, while I welcome this, Sen. (Dr.) Ali, I still advise that we move beyond that and see how to rework this at the Committee stage to ensure that we have an inter- governmental structure that brings together, including its membership from the national and county governments where these things will be resolved, not just as an advice but with a mandate to ensure that there is an inter-governmental structure allowed under Article 187 of the Constitution. I am willing to render my personal advice at that stage to the Committee on Health that is working on it, or to Sen. (Dr.) Ali so that we work on it together to solve this problem as we wait for the time, if we decide, to bring the health function to the national level in terms of staff or find other ways. Some of you will be governors, like Sen. Kihika who is seated next to me. I hope that they accept to protect our health workers and make sure that they are paid well. They need to re-orient the minds of Kenyan people to ensure that the demand of better services to the people is not building some structures but their wellbeing through their existing human resources or assets that they have in their counties and national Government. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am happy. Some of us spent the last one week engaging the Congress of the United States of America (USA). People there are serious when it comes to standing their ground on matters of legislation against the State and the national Government. I hope we can come out and become bold as a Senate. President Biden is busy negotiating with the Senator of Western Virginia for his budget and legislative agenda to succeed. One Senator has made it impossible because the senator-ship of the USA is 50/50. However, when a mere phone call from someone pretending to be in the State House says the ‘President has said’, we fumble and start running around doing things that do not benefit our people. I hope as the Senate, we will stand firm and come out and say what we want to do. Madam Temporary Speaker, next year when the ‘hustler’ Government comes to place, I assure you that in our ‘bottom up approach’ to resolving these problems, one of them will be for us to invest more in our health facilities from the local level. I promise this because I believe the hustler nation will take over."
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